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I want to be able to write a resultcount like this: {{#if count == 0}}No results{{/if}} {{#if count == 1}}1 result{{/if}} {{#if count 1}}{{count}} results{{/if}} This doesn t seems possible. Can this ...

thany opened Mar 15, 2012
82 comments

This PR includes and improves upon the first splat PR (#1128) based on discussions within #1050. Specifically, this PR provides (or will provide): - ES6-ish ...-based splatting syntax - splatting ...

feature
machty opened Dec 10, 2015
53 comments
handlebars-lang:master machty:splat-es6-2

It would be really nice to have access to the index of an each iteration. There are ready-to-use block helpers out there, but having this upstream would be nice. I can provide a pull request if that helps. ...

rbu opened May 31, 2012
49 comments

Follow-up on #1662, added a few unit test on top of the original PR. closes #1658 closes #1661 Note that there are not yet tests for all command line options. I know too little about handlebars yet (it ...

fabb opened Mar 29, 2020
56 comments
handlebars-lang:4.x fabb:migrate-to-yargs
Splat operator (#1050)

I ve been fielding several requests for a splat operator in Ember templates. Specifically, when using Ember components. For example given: {{! presuming myHash === { keyA: val , keyB: context.someProp ...

feature
mixonic opened Jun 30, 2015
43 comments

Hi folks, When I have a template, say: div {{#each updates}} div class= update {{#if ../user}} div class= name {{user.name}} /div {{/if}} p {{text}} /p ...

bug
kpdecker opened Jan 17, 2014
40 comments
master partial-hash

http://jsfiddle.net/cwYhN/3/ Notice that the same handlebars #each succeeds when outside tables. My jsfiddle includes two bordered outputs demonstrating this.

matrym opened Aug 15, 2013
38 comments

Handlebars now supports subexpressions. {{foo (bar 3)}} Subexpressions are always evaluated as helpers; if 3 were omitted from the above example, bar would be invoked as a param-less helper, even though ...

machty opened Dec 27, 2013
38 comments
handlebars-lang:master machty:subsexpr

There is already a related bug about getting parent context inside a partial called from within a block helper: issue #182. However, tracking parent context is probably not enough - add in another block ...

feature
kpdecker opened Jan 15, 2014
38 comments
master root-data

So, I hate to change a bunch of code for relatively little benefit, but I have a project that exports the specification tests as JSON [0] and, well, it would make my life a lot easier if expectTemplate ...

jbboehr opened Apr 24, 2020
44 comments
handlebars-lang:4.x jbboehr:remove-equals-4.x