Chance to get handlebars templating work for nickel?

[sunng87]

I haven't look into nickel much, but it seems the mustach template is hard-coded into the framework because the render function on response.

So, based on current design, is it possible to use handlebars or any other templating system?

[Ryman]

We recently extracted the mustache specific stuff to: https://github.com/Ryman/nickel-mustache with the aim of removing it from the core in the near future. It might be worth considering as a base to start a handlebars implementation for anyone interested. I definitely don't think it's impossible!

sidenote: It would be nice in future to have a templating system that could work with a number of renderers (depending on the file extensions, etc), but there's been no work towards that as far as I'm aware.

[sunng87]

One solution is to make templating a middleware and let render returns something specific to downstream that templating middlewares will be interested in. Perhaps I will look into this if I got time.

[zpallin]

FYI, https://github.com/Ryman/nickel-mustache is alive and works, but it's falling behind nickel.

https://github.com/Ryman/nickel-mustache/pull/4

[sunng87]

Thank you. I will look into the implementation to see if it's possible to make a similar one with handlebars.

[jolhoeft]

The nickel-mustache approach has be largely abandoned, and mustache is still integrated into nickel. If there is interest, I am open to revisiting this issue.