Assemble: register handlebar helper function

assemble, grunt-assemble, handlebars.js, template-engine

Solution

The helpers should be declared in another file and added to the `helpers` option in your assemble target:

my-helper.js

module.exports.asdf = function (str) { return 'asdf here!'; };

Gruntfile.js

grunt.initConfig({
  assemble: {
    options: {
      helpers: ['./my-helper.js']
    },
    someTarget: {
      ...
    }
  }
});

Problem

I'm using assemble 0.4.17 which has bundled handlebar 1.3.0. I'm trying to add a custom handlebar helper as documented here. So I added this to my Gruntfile (at the bottom of the file, outside of `module.exports = function(grunt) {`) Gruntfile.js ``` module.exports.asdf = function (str) { return 'asdf here!'; }; ``` And added this to index.hbs ``` {{#asdf}} bobo {{/asdf}} ``` And I would suggest that `asdf here!` would show up in the generated html, but it does not, instead only a blank line is printed. I also tried the `module.exports.register = function (Handlebars, options)` method, but this didn't work as well. Do I need to add something else to add this handlebar helper? I'm new to Assemble and grunt and handlebar, so I might just be missing the obvious

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