Grunt render-handlebars

gistfile1.txt

//I'll probably turn this into an actual plugin at some point, but for now this is a simple way to compile handlebars templates statically
grunt.registerMultiTask('render-handlebars', function () {
    var done = this.async();

    var inputFile = this.data["inputFile"],
        outputFile = this.data["outputFile"],
        removeInput = !!(this.data["removeTemplate"] || false),
        templateName = this.data["templateName"] || "index";

    try {
        var Handlebars = require('handlebars');
        Handlebars.partials = require(inputFile);
        grunt.file.write(outputFile, Handlebars.partials[templateName]({}));
        grunt.log.writeln("File " + outputFile + " written from ['" + templateName + "'] of " + inputFile);

        if (!removeInput) {
            done(true);
            return;
        }

        grunt.file.delete(inputFile);
        grunt.log.writeln(inputFile + " deleted.");
        done(true);
    } catch (e) {
        grunt.log.error(e.message);
        done(false);
    }
});