You’ve pretty much nailed it, however Mustache templates can also be compiled. Mustache is missing helpers and the more advanced blocks because it strives to be logicless. Handlebars’ custom helpers can be very useful, but often end up introducing logic into your templates. Mustache has many different compilers (JavaScript, Ruby, Python, C, etc.). Handlebars began … Read more
I assume that unescaping in Handlebars works the same as in vanilla Mustache. In that case use triple mustaches to unescape html, i,e: {{{unescapedhtml}}}, like: <script id=”quiz-result” type=”text/x-handlebars-template”> {{#each rounds}} {{{round_end_result}}} {{/each}} <div class=”clear”></div> for ref see: http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html
In other words, it prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot. In the old JSP days, it was very common to have JSP files sprinkled with Java code, which made refactoring much harder, since you had your code scattered. If you prevent logic in templates by design (like mustache does), you will be obliged … Read more
This is how you do if/else in Mustache (perfectly supported): {{#repo}} <b>{{name}}</b> {{/repo}} {{^repo}} No repos 🙁 {{/repo}} Or in your case: {{#author}} {{#avatar}} <img src=”{{avatar}}”/> {{/avatar}} {{^avatar}} <img src=”/images/default_avatar.png” height=”75″ width=”75″ /> {{/avatar}} {{/author}} Look for inverted sections in the docs: https://github.com/janl/mustache.js#inverted-sections
Built-in support since Handlebars 1.0rc1 Support for this functionality has been added to Handlebars.js, so there is no more need for external helpers. How to use it For arrays: {{#each myArray}} Index: {{@index}} Value = {{this}} {{/each}} For objects: {{#each myObject}} Key: {{@key}} Value = {{this}} {{/each}} Note that only properties passing the hasOwnProperty test … Read more
Built-in support since Handlebars 1.0rc1 Support for this functionality has been added to Handlebars.js, so there is no more need for external helpers. How to use it For arrays: {{#each myArray}} Index: {{@index}} Value = {{this}} {{/each}} For objects: {{#each myObject}} Key: {{@key}} Value = {{this}} {{/each}} Note that only properties passing the hasOwnProperty test … Read more