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We use the handlebars library to render HTML inside the browser.
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Handlebars templates actually get compiled into JS functions that
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in turn get called via a runtime library.
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We install handlebars as a node module, and then we copy the runtime
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to the static directory and add some copyright info. The former files
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reside in `node_modules/handlebars`.
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In our installation we call `./tools/compile-handlebars-templates`
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to build the file `static/templates/compiled.js`. (Then in staging/prod,
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that file also gets minified.) For the runtime, in dev mode we serve
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it from the static/third directory, and in prod we minify from the
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static/third directory.
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There are also some node unit tests that use handlebars, and all the
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code that they use comes directly from `node_modules/handlebars`,
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including the runtime.
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