Using engine's instance for things such as partials

[tbergeron]

Hi!

I'm using Handlebars, and I'd like to use partials with it.

But to register partials, I must use that kind of code:

Handlebars.registerPartial("person", "<strong>hello</strong>");

For doing this, I need the engine's instance which after checking your code isn't returned in any way.

Do you have any idea of how I could use it, if there is no way do you think you could make that change? (I also could if you want me to)

Thanks a lot!

[tj]

hmm yeah it seems like a few engines expose similar APIs.. we could come up with a normalized way to expose the engines for now, it might be a bit tricky to unify some of these

[tbergeron]

I agree about the unification part that could get a big complicated, but I'll check it out and try to figure something by myself and I'll submit it to you. Thanks!

[tj]

you should still be able to do var hbs = require('handlebars'); hbs.stuffhHere(), require() caches

[tbergeron]

Yes! It worked!!! Thanks a lot!

[ghost]

Is it possible to use partials with Hogan.js using this library?

I see that the partials go in the second parameter as part of their render function, but I'm unsure how to make use of it...

Thanks for your help.

[tj]

@dnglbr we just need some way to do that I guess, it's hard when these all have very different ideas of how to do things. Maybe we pass { partials: ... } and then delete options.partials

[ovaillancourt]

Hogan.js support is pretty minimal at this moment... There's no caching/partial support if I'm not mistaken. (And partials must be already compiled when provided to hogan. Nothing limiting that on consolidate's side but to be taken into consideration...)

Maybe should the hogan.js support be put in a separate issue?

[tj]

yeah, I'm not well-aware of the internals of each engine so I was just doing my best to get them started. We'll have to make sure that all the features of each are accessible

[doowb]

Engines can be retrieved from the .requires property. See this example in the readme.

For the Hogan question, if this is still an issue, please open a new issue (closing this due to age).