Installation
Handlebars is a template engine not a specific tool, so there are multiple ways you can use and install it. Handlebars templates can either be pre-compiled to improve performance, or you can compile them on the client side and have more flexibility with manipulating the templates themselves.
In this chapter we will take a look at downloading and setting up the necessary components to implement both of these methods.
Downloading the Handlebars library
Handlebars is easy to install as a js library since it has no other dependencies. To download the library, just go to http://handlebarsjs.com/ and click on the big download button, this should take you to the script, which you can save on your computer as handlebars.js:
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