[Solved] Replacing scripts with handlebars

OL Connect Professional Designer
1

Over the years I have written a lot of code to assist with displaying information on our templates correctly.
One of functions that I use a lot in our scripts is a function called “DisplayTitleValuePair”.
So, when I for example call the function like:

displayTitleValuePair(
	"orderno", 
	gTexts.orderno, 
	orderno,
	results
).text();

the function will replace 2 placeholders in my template. The placeholders in this case are “txt_orderno” and “val_orderno”, where txt_orderno is the title of the item in the template (which comes from gTexts.orderno) and val_orderno will be replaced by the parameter orderno. The first parameter orderno determines which key/value pair needs to be replaced.
I use this function throughout all my templates/scripts.

I would like to switch wherever possible to handlebars as I like to use the latest technology and I feel it can really improve my template designs. In this case I am not sure whether handlebars are a good fit as I then need to replace a key/value pair with 2 handlebar expressions that somehow link back to a single custom helper.
And in the template I am replacing a Javascript function with basically the same Javascript function but then in the form of a custom helper.

Does handlebars in this case provide anything useful or would it only create additional overhead?

2

It seems in this case I can use {{ gTexts.orderno }} for the txt_orderno and {{ record.jobs.0.orderno }} for the val_orderno instead and this seems to work. I just had to adjust the Handlebars.render function to: docResult = Handlebars.render( “file:///” + gDocument.replacements[i].value, { gTexts, record });