Support for declarative templates in view?

[ghost]

server.js includes the following...

// view engine setup
var hbs         = require('express-handlebars');
app.engine('handlebars', hbs( {
    layoutsDir: __dirname + '/app/views/layouts',
    partialsDir: __dirname + '/app/views/partials',
    defaultLayout: 'default'
}));
app.set('view engine', 'handlebars');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/app/views');

views/test.handlebars includes

{{!< notDefault }}
<h1>Not the default</h1>

views/templates includes two templates; default.handlebars and notDefault.handlebars.

When test is rendered, it always uses the default template unless I pass the template in during render via

res.render('test', {layout: 'notDefault'});

This works as expected. Am I missing something or is this not currently supported? I am using express-hbs v1.1.0 and express 4.

Thanks

[ericf]

What is {{!< notDefault }}? I haven't seen this Handlebars syntax before.

[ghost]

Ghost and express-hbs each use that syntax to extend Handlebars templates. http://docs.ghost.org/themes/structure/#partials- https://github.com/barc/express-hbs#layouts

I thought it was a standard handlebars feature, but after searching the Handlebars docs, I think perhaps not?

Sorry for the confusion.

[ericf]

So what exactly are you trying to accomplish here? They might be another way I can help.

[ghost]

I appreciate the offer, but that won't be necessary. Once I realized it wasn't part of the spec I restructured my templates to achieve what I wanted. We are considering using express-handlebars to customize an angular web app prior to delivery. Seems to work well. Thanks.