Templating in Electron?

Question

Simple question here, but I found no useful resource. Is templating possible in Electron? Using Jade or Handlebars to display dynamic templates? I know there is .loadURL() that takes a static html file.

Is dynamic possible?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could give electron-pug a chance. https://github.com/yan-foto/electron-pug

Answer 2

It would certainly be possible to use Jade or Handlebars for dynamic templating by running a local server in the Electron main process. I would not recommend this however, as it is kind of backwards. Electron is primarily a front end framework and while running a local server is good for some things, templating is not really one of them.

Most people use a frontend JS framework like Angular or React.