Question: How precompile actually works?

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Question: How precompile actually works? #292

Closed davidnguyen11 closed 3 years ago

davidnguyen11 commented 3 years ago

I investigated the code. So far I understand every time load page, it store the compiled template to variable cache and next time it get template from cache rather than running compile function again. Question:

If the lib already had cache, why do we need precompile?

UziTech commented 3 years ago

Makes it easier to use on the client side. https://handlebarsjs.com/installation/precompilation.html

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