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something like this in compile.js

if (!options || !options.noUnderscore){
output += "_ = require('underscore');\n";
}

Use case: referencing underscore as standalone library in html.

Hi Rob, thanks for this tool! Very handy!

I'm in the middle of migrating a substantial web application into a Browserify-compatible format, and this transform you've provided is exactly the thing I need. The many-templates-per-file aspect is especially nice, and fits my current template organization perfectly.

There is one suggestion I would like to make. My templates (and many others out in the wild) never use a variable name. They always take the form of

var template = _.template("<%= foo %>")
el.html(template({ foo: "bar" }))

To my knowledge, there's no way to leverage your compiler and keep the templates in that format. The template would have to change to <%= obj.foo %> or something similar.

Have you considered modifying the compile script to not require a variable name? This would help me greatly, as otherwise my only recourse is to update my several hundred templates by prefixing some object name to every variable reference...

Thanks again!

It would be good to declare the _ variable with the var keyword in the output files so that _ does not pollute the global namespace.