cwood821 / handlebars-review

{{ Handlebars }} Review

Why should I learn this thing and not the other?

• Default templating language of Ember
• Some organizations use it
• Other templating languages in different ecosystems are similar

Handlebars

A templating language that

is

• Declarative
• Expressive

and provides

• Separation of concerns (DRY/Single Responsibility Principle)
• View layer of Model-View-Controller Design Pattern/Architecture

Check out the the documentation.

Concepts

• Context
• Loops
• Partials
• Conditionals/Helpers

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You can use it on the front and backend

Use it with:

• Plain JavaScript on the front end
• Express

It's not always the right choice

There are tradeoffs to using templating languages, but they are powerful tools to separate responsibilities in your project.