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| A previous attempt at supporting Handlebars |
This is most certainly true. In that case, it was just enough code to demonstrate a problem, not something I would expect to maintain. In fact, if users who weren't me were regularly finding that code, I'd be more more likely to delete it than support it. But the broader point; that there are things that I might create on the server side, then regenerate on the client side, and as I do more and more web work, I become more and more likely to want to do that.
Below I show the creation of the table and the creation of output in both Template Toolkit and Text::Handlebars. You will notice that you have a handle for each element in TT (
FOREACH row IN table being akin to for my $row ( @table ) ), while with Handlebars, you get this. The joke about JavaScript is that you want to throw up your hands and scream "this is B.S.!" but you're not sure what this is.On the other hand, I've always been proud of making good, well-formatted HTML, and I do not like the formatting of the table that TT created. I've tried to make TT format more like I want it to look, and generally I just give up and make sure that it has everything my users, my code and I need of it instead. The Handlebars-generated HTML is exactly like I'd want my code to look.
Plus, Handlebars is cross-platform. I understand there's Jemplates to handle TT in Javascript, so strictly speaking, both are.
So, there's the code and the the rendered output. What do you think? What's your preference?
