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[svdoever]

I posted this already on stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24152877/handlebars-handlebars-helper-prettify-in-node-js-empty-result), but this seems a better place:

I try to use Handlebars with the prettify helper using the following code:

var handlebars = require("handlebars");
var helpers = require('prettify');

var templateHtml = "{{#prettify}}<div class='entry'><h1>{{title}}</h1><div class='body'>{{body}}</div></div>{{/prettify}}";
var templater = handlebars.compile(templateHtml);
var transformedHtml = templater({
    title: "Hello World",
    body: "De kat krabt de krullen van de trap"
});
console.log(transformedHtml);

But I get an empty result. What am I missing here? If I remove {{#prettify} and {{/prettify}} it works (but it is not pretty-printed!)

[doowb]

I posted an answer on stackoverflow, but I'll put it here too:

This helper was built to be used in assemble so there's a register method that needs to be called to work:

    var handlebars = require("handlebars");
    var helpers = require('prettify');
    helpers.register(handlebars);

    var templateHtml = "{{#prettify}}<div class='entry'><h1>{{title}}</h1><div class='body'>{{body}}</div></div>{{/prettify}}";
    var templater = handlebars.compile(templateHtml);
    var transformedHtml = templater({
        title: "Hello World",
        body: "De kat krabt de krullen van de trap"
    });
    console.log(transformedHtml);

That should work. Notice that prettify returns a Handlebars.SafeString() so transformedHtml will be a javascript object unless you add more markup outside of the prettify tags. You'll see what I mean by running it with and without spaces at the beginning and ending of the templateHtml string.

[svdoever]

Hi doowb, I accepted the answer on stackoverflow. Thanks! My comment on stackoverflow: Hi doowb, that did definitly do the job. Could you add this to the documentation on page github.com/helpers/handlebars-helper-prettify?

[jonschlinkert]

sounds like this was resolved, thanks @doowb!

[jonschlinkert]

please reopen if necessary, thanks for reporting it @svdoever