alisonailea/handlebars-webpack-plugin

Server-side template rendering using Handlebars.

npm install handlebars-webpack-plugin --save-dev

Usage

In your webpack config register and setup the handlebars plugin

var path = require("path");
var HandlebarsPlugin = require("handlebars-webpack-plugin");

var webpackConfig = {

  plugins: [

    new HandlebarsPlugin({
      // path to hbs entry file(s)
      entry: path.join(process.cwd(), "app", "src", "*.hbs"),
      // output path and filename(s). This should lie within the webpacks output-folder
      // if ommited, the input filepath stripped of its extension will be used
      output: path.join(process.cwd(), "build", "[name].html"),
      // data passed to main hbs template: `main-template(data)`
      data: require("./app/data/project.json"),
      // or add it as filepath to rebuild data on change using webpack-dev-server
      data: path.join(__dirname, "app/data/project.json"),

      // globbed path to partials, where folder/filename is unique
      partials: [
        path.join(process.cwd(), "app", "src", "components", "*", "*.hbs")
      ],

      // register custom helpers. May be either a function or a glob-pattern
      helpers: {
        nameOfHbsHelper: Function.prototype,
        projectHelpers: path.join(process.cwd(), "app", "helpers", "*.helper.js")
      },

      // hooks
      onBeforeSetup: function (Handlebars) {},
      onBeforeAddPartials: function (Handlebars, partialsMap) {},
      onBeforeCompile: function (Handlebars, templateContent) {},
      onBeforeRender: function (Handlebars, data) {},
      onBeforeSave: function (Handlebars, resultHtml, filename) {},
      onDone: function (Handlebars, filename) {}
    })
  ]
};

Partial ids are registered by parentFolder/filename (without file extensions)

Use handlebars in your main and partials like, i.e.

<body>
  {{> partialFolder/partialName}}

  {{> header/header title="page title"}}

  {{> partial/content}}
</body>

Html Webpack Plugin

Use the html-webpack-plugin to generate partials, that are dynamically registered to the handlebars-webpack-plugin

the HtmlWebpackPlugin should be placed before the HandlebarsWebpackPlugin
multiple HtmlWebpackPlugins may be used
per default, the partials get registered to html/<outputfilename>, i.e. a filename /dist/partials/head.hbs will be registered as html/head to handlebars

plugins: [
   new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
    title: "Generic Head Title",
    // the template you want to use
    template: path.join(__dirname, "src", "generatedpartial", "head.hbs"),
    // the output file name
    filename: path.join(__dirname, "dist", "partials", "head.hbs"),
    inject: "head"
  }),

  new HandlebarsWebpackPlugin({

    htmlWebpackPlugin: {
    enabled: true, // register all partials from html-webpack-plugin, defaults to `false`
    prefix: "html" // default is "html"
    },

    entry: path.join(process.cwd(), "src", "hbs", "*.hbs"),
    output: path.join(process.cwd(), "dist", "[name].html"),

    partials: [
      path.join(process.cwd(), "dist", "*", "*.hbs"),
      path.join(process.cwd(), "src", "hbs", "*", "*.hbs")
    ]
  })
]

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