How can I precompile HandlebarsJS templates from Visual Studio?

Question

Is it possible to precompile Handlebars Templates from a postbuild event of Visual Studio or in the App_Start of a MVC web app? Thanks so much in advance. Dale

Answer 1

Sure, you have many options:

1. You can install node.js for windows and npm, and configure a post-build event to the compilation (example here from previous question)
2. If you're using ember.js, here's an implementation that uses bundle transformation to achieve precompilation.
3. Another for ember.js that supports components, here's the implementation, that also uses bundle transformation.
4. Here is an example of compilation on C# using the Jurassic javascript compiler