Loads partial handlebars templates from files in a directory

load-hbs-partials.js

// Helps with this problem:
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8059914/express-js-hbs-module-register-partials-from-hbs-file

var hbs = require('hbs');
var fs = require('fs');

var partialsDir = __dirname + '/../views/partials';

var filenames = fs.readdirSync(partialsDir);

filenames.forEach(function (filename) {
  var matches = /^([^.]+).hbs$/.exec(filename);
  if (!matches) {
    return;
  }
  var name = matches[1];
  var template = fs.readFileSync(partialsDir + '/' + filename, 'utf8');
  hbs.registerPartial(name, template);
});

Thanks, very useful.

on line 18 you want to return hbs.registerPartial(name, template); I belive

Highly useful. Thanks.

Brilliant! Thank you for this :)

Thanks.. It works..

If you want to read the directory recursively. Use below code

var dir = path.join(__dirname, 'views');
//console.log(partialsDir);

const walkSync = (dir, filelist = []) => {
  fs.readdirSync(dir).forEach(file => {

    filelist = fs.statSync(path.join(dir, file)).isDirectory()
      ? walkSync(path.join(dir, file), filelist)
      : filelist.concat(path.join(dir, file));

  });
  return filelist;
}

var filelist = walkSync(dir);
if (filelist.length > 0) {
  filelist.forEach(function (filename) {
    var matches = /^([^.]+).hbs$/.exec(path.basename(filename));
    if (!matches) {
      return;
    }
    var name = matches[1];
    console.log(name);
    var template = fs.readFileSync(filename, 'utf8');
    Handlebars.registerPartial(name, template);
  });
}

thanks you very helpful!

thanks a lot about it!! 🦀

@tapankumar thank you very much for the code. I have a question.
let's say our template structure is like below

Index.hbs
----partials
--------partial1.hbs
--------subfolder
------------partials-under-subfolder.hbs

Now how should I include the partials-under-subfolder within index.hbs template file?

@tapankumar thank you very much for the code. I have a question.
let's say our template structure is like below

Index.hbs
----partials
--------partial1.hbs
--------subfolder
------------partials-under-subfolder.hbs

Now how should I include the partials-under-subfolder within index.hbs template file?

had the same problem. seems like {{> subfolder_name/partial_under_subfolder.hbs}} should work

nm.