Node.js express, handlebars - get elements of an array

handlebars.js, node.js

Solution

First of all, lets assume that your `files:items` is a handlebar'd array looking kinda like this.

{ files:['filenameOne.ext', 'filenameTwo.ext', 'filenameThree.exe'] };

Now when you've written this on the response and you want to loop over the array in handlebars.js this is how your HTML should look like, using your code.

<div id="container">
    <div class="highlight">
        <img src="img/highlight.png"></img>
        <p>A Click to download</p>
    </div>
    <ul>
        <li class="RoundedAll"><a href="/">Back</a></li>
    </ul>
    <br />
    <ul>
        {{#each files}}
        <li>{{this}}</li>
        {{/each}}
    </ul>
</div>

The `<li>{{this}}</li>` will contain the filename's that is contained within your list. To then access that you would have to make a `<a>` that links to a controller, `app.get('/getActualFile', function(){ //serve the file here });` and then write the fetched file on the response.

Hope this points you in the right the direction and that the use of an iterator in handlebars is a bit more obvious.

I myself does not prefer handlebars but that is since i'm not used to it completely. I myself like this template-language for Node.js better, http://paularmstrong.github.com/swig/

It features a bit more "clear" syntax but is probably worse than handlebars considering the diffrent ways you can customize Handlebars.

Problem

I have an array like this: ``` var arr = ["element1","element2"]; ``` and I would like to get the elements of it in a handlebars file. I googled with no result the only solution what i found is this: ``` {{#each files}} <a href="/"{{path}}"">{{title}}</a> {{/each}} ``` But this is not good for me because I would like to achive that all of my files in a directory could be downloadable. The code what I tried on the server side: ``` app.get('/download',function(req,res){ var items; fs.readdir('./download',function(err,files){ items = files; }); res.render('download',{ files:items }); }); ``` And I don't know how to iterate on the client side to make all of the elements in the array downloadable. On the clien side I have an unordered list which will contain the links. The problem is, that I have no idea how to achive that. The code on the clien side: ``` <div id="container"> <div class="highlight"> <img src="img/highlight.png"></img> <p>A Click to download</p> </div> <ul> <li class="RoundedAll"><a href="/">Back</a></li> </ul> <br /> <ul> <!-- What should I put here? --> </ul> </div> ``` Thanks for answers.

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