exphbs 

A Handlebars view engine for Express.

Features

Layouts:

* Declaring layout with a render option or template comment ({{!< layout}})
* Nested layouts with arbitrary depth

Partials:

* Autoloading from defined directory (defaults to views/partials)
* Namespaced partial names (based on relative paths)
* Supports any file extension (defaults to hbs and html)
* Dynamically applying changes during development

Helpers:

* Autoloading from defined directory (defaults to views/helpers)

Block inheritance:

* Defining named blocks in layouts then extend them in templates

Variables:

* Defining @variables that can be accessed from any context in a template

Precompiling:

* Templates and partials are precompiled and cached in production

Instances:

* Creating a new instance of separate cache
* Instantiating with user-provided Handlebars object

Getting started

Installation:

``bash
$ npm install exphbs
`

Registering view engine:

`javascript
app.engine('hbs', require('exphbs'));
app.set('view engine', 'hbs');
`

Default directory structure:

`
.
├── app.js
└─┬ views/
├── index.hbs
├── helpers/
├── layouts/
└── partials/
`

Example

Check out example directory for a complete example. You can play around with it on Runnable.

Docs

* View engine
* Render options
* Variables
* Layouts
* Partials
* Helpers
* Block inheritance

Tests

`bash
$ npm install
$ npm test
``

License

MIT