handlebars-maven-plugin

A maven plugin for precompiling handlebars templates and merging it into a single js file.

Introduction

handlebars-maven-plugin is used to precompile the handlebars templates of your project. With this fork, you can precompile partial templates as well.

Usage

In your maven pom, use the plugin like this:

 <plugin>
      <groupId>net.unit8.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>handlebars-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>*VersionNumber*</version>
      <executions>
      	<execution>
        	<goals>
            	<goal>precompile</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
       </executions>
       <configuration>
       	<sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/templates/</sourceDirectory>
        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes/template/</outputDirectory>
        <outputFileName>template.js</outputFileName>
        <partialPrefix>partial_</partialPrefix>
        </configuration>
</plugin>

Optional parameters

Name	Type	Description
sourceDirectory	String	The directory of handlebars templates
outputDirectory	String	The directory of precompiled templates
outputFileName	String	Name of the js File that will be generated (default is template.js)
partialPrefix	String	Name of the prefix to detect it is a partial which must be processed in a different way. If nothing is set, every template will be handled as a normal template (default is _partial)
purgeWhitespace	Boolean	true if whitespace [\r\n\t] needs to be purged. Defaults to false.
encoding	String	charset of template files.
templateExtensions	String[]	The extensions of handlebars templates
handlebarsVersion	String	The handlebars version using by precompile. Default value is "1.0.0". If you want to use an older version, add this parameter (e.g. 1.0.rc.2 ). And this plugin will fetch the version from GitHub.