Handlebars
Semantic templating engine for building dynamic HTML with intuitive syntax.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
27
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#37 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
41.9M
npm, last 7 days, handlebars
GitHub stars
18.7K
last push Oct 6, 2026
How Handlebars is used
Handlebars is a dependency in 27 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #37 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Zod (59.3%), ts-node (33.3%), TypeScript (85.2%).
Often used with Handlebars
| Zod | 59.3% of Handlebars projects · 3.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| ts-node | 33.3% of Handlebars projects · 4.9× more than average |
| TypeScript | 85.2% of Handlebars projects · 1.5× more than average |
| Jest | 29.6% of Handlebars projects · 5.4× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript) | 25.9% of Handlebars projects · 5.5× more than average |
| ESLint | 59.3% of Handlebars projects · 1.6× more than average |
| Prettier | 40.7% of Handlebars projects · 2.3× more than average |
| Vitest | 33.3% of Handlebars projects · 2.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Handlebars as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install handlebars |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (17), Next.js (8), Python (2) |
| Example projects | dutradotdev/mcp-portal-transparencia, hzrd149/nostrudel, englercj/phaser-debug, Gerstep/HumanCompiler, zeta-chain/toolkit |
Alternatives to Handlebars
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| react-markdown npm React component for rendering markdown with customizable component handling. |
360 (2.8%) | 37.2M | 15.9K | MIT |
| remark-gfm npm Remark plugin adding GitHub Flavored Markdown support for tables and strikethrough. |
288 (2.3%) | 44.5M | 1,249 | MIT |
| Jinja2 pypi Fast and expressive template engine for Python with powerful flexibility. |
175 (1.4%) | 145M | 11.8K | — |
| Marked npm Fast, efficient markdown parser for converting markdown to HTML. |
148 (1.2%) | 83.8M | 37.2K | MIT |
| React Syntax Highlighter npm React component for syntax highlighting code with Prism.js or Highlight.js. |
110 (0.9%) | 7.8M | 4,674 | MIT |
| gray-matter npm Parser extracting YAML/JSON front matter from markdown and text files. |
106 (0.8%) | 10.6M | 4,490 | MIT |
| Tiptap npm Headless Vue/React rich text editor framework with customizable extensions. |
105 (0.8%) | 18.7M | 38.7K | MIT |
| Pygments pypi Syntax highlighting library for code in Python supporting hundreds of programming languages. |
97 (0.8%) | 239M | 2,213 | — |