Question

If there is a Backbone Model called Person, which has properties firstName, lastName. Usually, access to it is like person.get('firstName') and person.get('lastName').

How do I do a similar thing in a Handlebar template, where a person has been exposed to the context.

Answer 1

When you render the Handlebars template, you need to pass in the attributes of the model. The recommended way to do this is to call Model.toJSON, which returns a copy of the the model’s internal attributes hash.

var template = Handlebars.compile(templateHtml);
var rendered = template({ person: model.toJSON() });

In the template you can access the context by the property name.

<span>{{person.firstName}} {{person.lastName}}</span>