Shitty Handlebars

Shitty Handlebars is a shitty library that provides a subpar implementation of the popular Handlebars templating engine, BUT it has no dependencies and it's gotta focus on backend generation. My use-case: cloudflare worker dynamic html routes.

Features

• Conditional Rendering (#if): Implements simple conditional statements.
• Looping Over Arrays and Objects: Supports iterating over arrays in the data object
• Custom Data Contexts: Introduces a local this context within loops and object iterations.
• That's pretty much it.
• Literally all of this was written by chatGPT

Installation

yarn add elliotberry/shitty-handlebars

Example

Using Shitty Handlebars is straightforward. Here's the kitchen sink of available features:

A template example:

<h1>Hello, {{name}}!</h1>
{{#if isATurtle}}<h3>Turtle confirmed.</h3>{{/if}}
{{#traits}}<strong>{{this}}</strong>{{/traits}}

Some data:

const data = { 
	name: 'Mitch McConnell', 
	isATurtle: true, 
	traits: ['old', 'turtle-like']
};

Finally, the script:

import shb from "shitty-handlebars"

const template = `<h1>Hello, {{name}}!{{#if isATurtle}}<h3>Turtle confirmed.</h3>{{/if}}{{#traits}}<strong>{{this}}</strong>{{/traits}}`;
const data = { name: 'Mitch McConnell', isATurtle: true, traits: ['old', 'turtle-like']};

const renderedTemplate = shb(template, data);

console.log(renderedTemplate);

Acknowledgments

Thanks, AI.