Chapter 5. Templating with Handlebars
In this chapter, we will be exploring the following topics:
- The Handlebars templating framework
- The steps to develop the templates necessary to build the presentation layer of our application
Before we start exploring the capabilities of Handlebars, we need to have an idea of what a templating framework generally does.
Templating engines
As we already know, a Model View Controller (MVC) application framework divides the application-specific code into models, views, and controllers. Controllers are supposed to be handling the task of binding the appropriate data to its relevant views to generate the output for an incoming web application request. So, views are supposed to be independent of the data and only contain ...
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