precompile-handlebars

A webpack plug-in to precompile handlebar templates directories into concatenated files.

Why

Migrating from grunt-based bundling to webpack-based bundling often causes issues converting a bunch of tasks from the the grunt way of doing things to a new one.

One of these tasks is precompilation of handlbars templates. Most webpack handlebars packages let you load and compile templates only at runtime as part of your webpack.config.js loaders section. However, for those interested in precompiling their templates and concatenate them to a single file there is no easy solution.

The precompile-handlebars plug-in for webpack leverages the handlebars package by reading through a directory containing handlebar templates to create a single, precompiled handlebars js file.

Installation

npm install precompile-handlebars --save-dev

Usage

You can provide an object or an array of objects containing the following precompilation directives:

• inputDir - the directory where the handlebars templates reside
• outputFile - the output file name of concatenated precompiled templates

Partials

Template files names that are prefixed with an underscore are treated as partials (i.e., _partial1.handlebars).

Example

var webpack = require('webpack');
var HandlebarsPlugin = require('precompile-handlebars');

module.exports = {
  ...
      plugins: [
        new HandlebarsPlugin([
            {
                inputDir: "templates",
                outputFile: "output/compiled-templates.js"
            },
            {
                inputDir: "my-other-templates",
                outputFile: "output/my-other-compiled-templates.js"
            }
        ])
    ],
}

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Capriza

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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