Get the package: npm install handlebars-precompiler
This is how you might use it in an Express project:
app.configure('development', function(){
hbsPrecompiler = require('handlebars-precompiler');
hbsPrecompiler.watchDir(
__dirname + "/views",
__dirname + "/public/javascripts/templates.js",
['handlebars', 'hbs']
);
});In this example, we watch for changes to *.handlebars and *.hbs files in our views directory.
When changes are made, precompilation is run on all Handlebars templates and exported to a single minified
Javascript file.
On the browser side, you will need to deploy the Handlebars runtime-only release. You could use the full release which includes a compiler, but your site will be faster if you don't.
Client-side versions of the templates will be named and stored in the Handlebars object according to their file paths,
e.g. Handlebars.templates['users/show']