Terminalfour Handlebars

Course Details

Goal

The goal of this course is to enable developers with the knowledge and skills to create, manage, and implement Custom Handlebars Helpers within the Terminalfour platform. Participants will learn how to extend Terminalfour’s Handlebar capabilities using Custom Helpers, enabling more dynamic and flexible content rendering within layouts. Through guided examples and practical exercises, attendees will gain hands-on experience writing and deploying Custom Helpers to streamline content management and enhance site functionality.

Audience

This course is for experienced developers who have completed Implementer training (formerly known as Web Developer training) or have equivalent knowledge of Terminalfour version 8. Participants should also have a basic understanding of Handlebars - either through our Handlebars documentation or from the Handlebars modules in the Advanced Implementer training.

A solid understanding of JavaScript is required.

Content covered

• How to setup and create Custom Helpers
• Using named and unnamed parameters
• Exception handling within Custom Helpers
• Escaping JSON
• Trimming Strings
• String search basics
• Applying different behaviors to your Custom Helpers
• Working with dates (date formatting, date ranges)
• Math operations
• Embedding YouTube videos
• Creating responsive text
• The IPublish API
• Generating reports from webpage content (using the IPublishAPI)

Course Code

T205