I am trying to use handlebars templates. I used Express-handlebars for my server, and i want to use handlebars js for my client side rendering.
This is the script for the handlebars template.
<script id="some-template" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
<div class="row">
{{#each result}}
<!-- product -->
<div class="col-md-4 col-xs-6">
<a href="/product/{{_id}}"> <div class="product">
<div class="product-img">
<img src="\{{picture}}" style="height:160px;">
<div class="product-label">
{{#if percent}}
<span class="sale">{{percent}}%</span>
{{/if}}
<span class="new">NEW</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="product-body">
<p class="product-category">{{category}}</p>
<h3 class="product-name"><a href="/product/{{this._id}}">{{this.title}}</a></h3>
<h4 class="product-price">${{this.price}} <del class="product-old-price">${{this.discounted_price}}</del></h4>
{{#if this.averagerating}}
</div></a>
</div>
{{/each}}
</div>
</script>
For the client side
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-q8i/X+965DzO0rT7abK41JStQIAqVgRVzpbzo5smXKp4YfRvH+8abtTE1Pi6jizo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/4.4.2/handlebars.js" integrity="sha256-hSzapznWRy/aOZkctlN03an9DxCLlN8ZCQS0lxntiHg=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
$('#mybutton').click(function(){
var post_url = $('#myform').attr("action");
var form_data = $('#myform').serialize();
// console.log(post_url, form_data);
var source = $("#some-template").html();
var template = Handlebars.compile(source);
$('#loader').show();
$.get( post_url, form_data, function( response ) {
$("#searchresult").html("");
console.log(response);
var data = template({result:response});
console.log(data);
$("#searchresult").html(data);
//$('#loader').hide();
});
My response
is an array with an object inside, for example:[ {title:"Black Cap", price:60}]
.
But nothing shows on the page!!!. the data
which i am supposed to send as html displays like :
:
<div class="row">
</div>
Please help. Thanks
Handlebars js api, only accepts a javascript object.
if you create an object, Displayhtml
with the result
array as a field, like this :
Displayhtml={
results:[ {title:"Black Cap", price:60}]
}
Then you parse the object to the template
: template(Displayhtml)
. then it works!!!
In front-end(you must but a \
before any helper in handlebars if you are also using handlebars as in server-side rendering ):
\{{# each results}}
\\do whatever you want.
\{{/each}}