Handlebars - Compiled Templates

It is possible to precompile your Handlebars template (the result is a JavaScript function), and then include the compiled templates via a script element.

Advantages of precompiling the templates include:

• Faster execution
• Can use lighter-weight Handlebars JS library (the "runtime" version, which doesn't have the compiler)

So here's an example where I've compiled the course list template into courseslist.js. Now there's no compile step, just a reference to Handlebars.templates.courseslist to access the template function.  Note too that we are using the "runtime" version of the Handlebars library - handlebars.runtime.min.js 

• Live Example - Handlebars Precompiled Template
• Handlebars Precompiled Template - JS Fiddle

Note the command to compile the template looked like:

$ handlebars.js courseslist -f courseslist.js

where courseslist is the source template, and courseslist.js is the generated compiled JS file