Docpad-Handlebars

Objective

Create a Docpad app which rendered its views using Handlebar templates so that the same templates could be shared by a frontend JS app.

Getting setup

1. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/100Shapes/docpad-handlebars.git
2. Install the dependencies cd docpad-handlebars && npm install
3. Run the app docpad run

Running the app

1. Launch the app
2. Note the line of text
3. Turn JavaScript off in the browser and refresh
4. Docpad renders the same template

Special Sauce

Due to the Docpad-plugin-Handlebars, we're actually precompiling the Handlebars templates for the browser.

How does it work?

The Docpad side

1. The Home document is a normal Docpad Document, but it calls a template function to generate its view rather than doing it itself
2. The templates referred to by name, with a simple data object just like any other rendering any other Handlebars template

The JS side

1. Here we take advantage of the Docpad Handlebars plugin and point requirejs at the precompiled Handlebars templates
2. Write the view to render the template
3. Finally, call that view from within the page (here, we're cheating slightly by using the layout)

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 ONEHUDNREDSHAPES LTD.

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