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

I know this question was on Visual Studio 2010 but I found it when looking for a solution to Handlebars recompile in VS2013. I spent some time looking at solutions until I found that Web Essentials for Visual Studio added auto-precompile of handlebars templates in November 2014.

This feature in Web Essentials is not very well publicised and I only found it when I was building my solution and found that a .hbs.js file automatically appeared when I edited a handlebar .hbs file! I wasted a lot of time looking for solutions when it was already there.

I hope this answer helps someone else.