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Comment by carlosedp | Hacker News Reader

Do you share the same templates between server and backbone? I'm trying to escape code duplication as much as I can.

Do anyone knows any pattern to have the server templates sent to backbone avoiding duplication?

I've been using hogan.js to compile mustache templates to JavaScript functions on the server-side and write them to a js file that is then served to the browser:

  Templates={}
  Templates['templatename']=function(){/*compiled template*/}

They can then be referenced quite easily in your backbone render methods.

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