Automatically including runtime

[Fauntleroy]

I'd like to add the ability to automatically prepend the Handlebars runtime to the compiled js file.

Right now, I'm doing this:

...
concat: {
    experiment: {
        files: {
            'assets/compiled/templates.js': ['node_modules/grunt-contrib-handlebars/node_modules/handlebars/dist/handlebars.runtime.js','assets/compiled/templates.js']
        }
    }
},

How about an option called runtime that accepts a boolean and is false by default?

[tkellen]

Sorry, but I don't want to bundle a specific version of the runtime. You'll need to write to a temporary file and use grunt-contrib-concat to bring it in.

[Fauntleroy]

Technically, isn't a specific version of Handlebars already being used to compile the templates? Isn't it weirder to manually choose a runtime to use client side? Besides, this would be completely optional, and off by default.

[tkellen]

No, we've specified a tilde version range which will automatically receive updates for patch releases. The handlebars project has broken backwards compatibility in the runtime with patch releases in the past--I don't want to absorb the issues that will result if it happens again.