Support `.hbs` extensions for entry files about vite-plugin-handlebars

[alexlafroscia]

I've been looking into this, and I don't think it's possible. Rollup doesn't seem to support changing the id for a file while transforming it, and a bunch of logic within Vite seems to require the .html extension for the entry file.

I can successfully get the .hbs file at the top level through the Handlebars transform, but something within Vite (or maybe Rollup?) chokes on it after that; presumably because it's getting the wrong extension.

[Chris2011]

I now run in this problem :D. Of course I can fix it with changeing hbs from html but as you already said, it would be cool. Beside that, I didn't believe that this is possible, I googled just short and I found this: https://github.com/yohangz/rollup-plugin-hbs Could this be a solution?

[alexlafroscia]

Unfortunately, I don't think it is. That plugin defines a transform hook, which this plugin currently does not do, but certainly could!

I took a stab at implementing one to see if that would do the trick last week, but unfortunately it did not because I can't change the .hbs file extension to .html through the transform, and Vite is expecting that the "entry file" is an .html file (it's hard-coded in their code in some places that I've seen while looking through how Vite actually "works" under-the-hood).

It could be an issue worth raising on the Vite repo to see if we could somehow find a solution to this, though!

[Chris2011]

Maybe there could be a ticket created for hbs. I dunno whether there is a ticket yet. I googled a couple of days ago and all what I found was the rollup hbs plugin. @jdf221 thx for investigating :).

[Chris2011]

I saw the discussion in the vite repo. Is there anything new here? Do you think, your code is ready for a PR @jdf221 ?