How can I convert my templates from mustache to handlebars?

Question

I have templates that are mustache files that need to be converted to handlebars. From doing research it looks like handlebars supports a lot but not all of the mustache functionality. Are there any tools that will allow me to automate this conversion?

• Mustache: https://mustache.github.io/
• Handlebars: https://handlebarsjs.com/
• Here are some differences between mustache and handlebars: What are the differences between Mustache.js and Handlebars.js?

I am using these specific implementations of those templates:

• mustache: (Java) artifactId=jmustache https://github.com/samskivert/jmustache
• handlebars: (Java) artifactId=handlebars https://github.com/jknack/handlebars.java

Answer 1

One can automate converting mustache templates to handlebars templates with this python mustache_to_handlebars tool: https://github.com/spacether/mustache_to_handlebars

One key differences is:

• #someTag in mustache covers these 3 use cases in handlebars: #if or #each or #with

And you can call it like: mustache_to_handlebars path_containing_mustache_files