SungardAS/condensation

Should async helpers be allowed

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kmcgrath commented

Async helpers are not allowed by Handlebars. This promotes building all data before rendering the "view".

Since condensation is not really the "view" of a MVC should async helpers, like those in express-hbs be allowed?

Is there a better way to allow more advanced scripting to support template creation?

kmcgrath commented

ideas:

  1. Use express-hbs. Already has async as well as other additions such as layouts.
  2. Export a promise instead of a plain function. If detected as a promise a UUID will be injected into the template. Then wait for all promises to completed and replace UUIDs with the helper output.
  3. Fibers?
kmcgrath commented

Tabling this discussion with the implementation of Fix #19