How to include external handlebars templates? about brunch-with-hipsters

[petrocket]

oh man. does this mean i'm not a hipster? dag yo.

[elving]

The Hackerank app uses an old version of the Brunch with Hipsters skeleton. I had a custom View class that had a template property and a simple render method (https://github.com/elving/brunch-with-hipsters/blob/2755050ce1532aac510f3730244de8c24be0833b/app/lib/view.coffee).

I decided to remove it to keep things simple. To render a Handlebar template using a Backbone View you can do something like:

render: ->
    template = require 'templates/template_name'
    @$el.html template @model?.attributes

And yes, you are a hipster because you used the expresion "dag yo".

[petrocket]

Thank God I haven't lost my hipster status! It's working now, apparently the 'scaffolt generate view' command doesn't create an 'el' class member, but a 'className' member so when I was trying to render the 'el' member wasn't properly defined. I added el: '.myclass' to the class definition and it appears to be working - final code is now essentially:

module.exports = class MyView extends Backbone.View
    className: 'myview'
    el: '.myview'
    template: require 'views/templates/myview'

    initialize: ->
        @render()

    render: ->
        @$el.html @template @model?.attributes