Properly precompile Handlebars templates and partials with Gulp

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Handlebars

If you are using Handlebars as your web front-end's template engine, it is generally a good idea to send precompiled templates to the browser instead of leaving to the the client the job of compiling every single template it requires.

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Gulp.js

I'll present here a Gulp script I've been using for this task for some time now. It will seek any .hbs files in your src folder, precompile it, and output a single templates.js file on your dist/js folder. It will also pick any file whose filename starts with _ and set it up as a handlebars partial, so it can be included in other templates (just remember to omit the _ character when including, eg, _myInclude.hbs becomes {{>myInclude}}).

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