How to use this in combination with coffeescript?

[varblob]

Back ticks escaping to pure js in ember-cli-coffeescript. Any suggestions on how to get past this.

[pangratz]

Sorry, my Coffeescript skills are very limited so I don't really know if there is a way. I tried using embedded JavaScript functionality but this doesn't work since the backtick is used for escaping ...

One possible way I could think of is defining the templates in an ES6 file and import them in your Coffeescript, but the advantage of seeing the template in the test is lost. Something like the following (untested):

// tests/templates.js
import hbs from 'htmlbars-inline-precompile';

export var testTemplate = hbs`
  {{#my-component}}
    hello
  {{/my-component}}
`;

// tests/unit/component/my-component.coffee
import { testTemplate } from '../../../templates';

test "it works", (assert) ->
  @render testTemplate

  assert.equals @$().html().text().trim(), "hello"

[varblob]

I think your idea should work but as you stated it makes the tests considerably less readable. It's too bad there isn't a way to escape backticks so I could do something like hbs\{{#my-component}}hello{{/my-component}}``. I'm gonna see if maybe coffeescript has something to say about escaping backticks. Looks like a known bug and no action to repair jashkenas/coffeescript#1504 (comment)

[pangratz]

I have another idea: hbs('template string') will be precompiled by ember-cli-htmlbars-inline-precompile as well (not just tagged template strings, like currently). This allows you to write tests in Coffeescript like this:

`import hbs from 'ember-cli-htmlbars-inline-precompile';`

test "it works", (assert) ->
  @render '
    {{#my-component}}
      hello
    {{/my-component}}
  '

  assert.equals @$().html().text().trim(), "hello"

[pangratz]

I released v0.2.0 which adds support for passing a single string to the hbs() function. See tests/unit/components/coffeescript-support-test.coffee and tests/unit/views/precompile-test.js on how this is used. I also added a section to the README#CoffeeScript.

Thanks for opening the issue and giving me the idea to enhance this addon! 🍻

I am going to close this issue. Feel free to comment if you have any issues. Cheers!

[varblob]

Works a charm, if you're ever in NY I owe you a beer!

[pangratz]

Great, glad it works. Happy testing!