electron-handlebars

2.0.0 • Public • Published

electron-handlebars

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Use Handlebars instead of plain HTML for your Electron app!

Usage

In your main process JavaScript:

const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');
 
require('electron-handlebars')({
  // Template bindings go here!
  title: 'Hello, World!',
  body: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.',
});
 
let mainWindow = null;
 
app.on('window-all-closed', () => app.quit());
 
app.on('ready', () => {
  mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
    show: false,
    width: 400,
    height: 300,
  });
  mainWindow.loadURL(`file://${__dirname}/index.hbs`);
  mainWindow.webContents.on('did-finish-load', () => {
    mainWindow.show();
    mainWindow.focus();
  });
});

And in index.hbs (or whatever other file you are loading with loadURL):

<html>
<head>
  <title>{{ title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>{{ title }}</h>
  <p>{{ body }}</p>
</body>
</html>

Example App

There is a complete (albeit small) working example app in the example directory. You can run it from root directory with the following:

npm i
npm start

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