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I'm trying to use Handlebars with Express, and I found the modules express-handlebars, express-hbs and hbs which all seem to work similarly. What are the main differences between them that I should be aware of, given that I need to able to use layouts and partials?
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When comparing both packages you notice that hbs is the more popular package today (1,560 Stars on Github). express-handlebars has a bigger community of maintainers, more daily downloads, more weekly downloads and more monthly downloads.
Handlebars. js is a templating engine similar to the ejs module in node. js, but more powerful and simple to use. It ensures minimum templating and is a logicless engine that keeps the view and the code separated. It can be used with express as the hbs module, available through npm.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" /> </head> <body> {{{body}}}
Handlebars is popular for both back-end and front-end templating. For example, the popular front-end framework Ember uses Handlebars as the templating engine. Handlebars is an extension of the Mustache template language, which is mostly focused on simplicity and minimal templating.
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Seems to be the most popular package at the moment. There is live chat on gitter. Dependencies are up-to date and current npm version is 3.0.0. Last update 29 days ago (at the moment of this post) One important thing is about its license - it's licensed by Yahoo Inc (others are MIT licensed).
There is really good documentation in README with extended explanation of every feature including API information. Here you will find both basic and advanced usage.
One difference in comparison with other packages is an ability to use Hooks. In this way you can override some functionality of ExpressHandlebars instances.
Easy to use view engine with almost the same functionality as in Express-handlebars, but last activity was 4 months ago. Anyway tests are green at the moment. Has MIT license.
This package is written by guys from Barc. Can be used with both express 3/4 versions. It says about i18n support which is good, but it's also easy to integrate i18n everywhere else so I'd not say it's a feature. Has MIT license.
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