lighthousesystems / esbuild-plugin-handlebars

A handlebars template precompiler for esbuild.

esbuild-plugin-handlebars

A handlebars template precompiler for esbuild.

Installation

npm i esbuild-plugin-handlebars --save-dev

General Usage

esbuild configuration

import hbsPlugin from "esbuild-plugin-handlebars";

esbuild.build({
    entryPoints: ["index.ts"],
    ...
    plugins: [
        hbsPlugin({
            filter: /\.(hbs|handlebars)$/i,
            additionalHelpers: {
                toLowerCase: "templateHelpers/toLowerCase",
                translate: "templateHelpers/translate"
            },
            precompileOptions: {}
        })
    ]
});

Your JS making use of the templates

import template from "template.hbs";
// => returns template.hbs content as a template function

Details

Helpers must be provided as options to the plugin. It is unknown whether external partials work.

Options

• filter: the filenames that will be processed by this plugin. Defaults to files with the extensions .hbs or .handlebars.
• additionalHelpers: the helpers that can be used in templates.
• precompileOptions: options passed into the hb.precompile() call.

Change Log

See the CHANGELOG.md file.

License

MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license)

esbuild-plugin-handlebars's Issues

Helpers not working

Hello,
I've added my helpers into additionalHelpers as described in README.md, however they aren't working.

I've stepped through the code and discovered that foundHelpers is always an empty array.
https://github.com/lighthousesystems/esbuild-plugin-handlebars/blob/master/index.ts#L119