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opine/handlebars
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Wrapper to Zordius LightnCandy Handlebars PHP compiler for compiling all layouts and partials in opine projects

2.0.8(11y ago)01501MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Dec 24Pushed 11y ago3 watchersCompare

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Handlebars
==========

[](#handlebars)

Wrapper to Zordius LightnCandy Handlebars PHP compiler for compiling all layouts and partials in opine projects.

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 89.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1 days

Total

3

Last Release

4207d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c44f040dad14ac398dcc450aac4a37b1bed4378e936ef637c0454fc946ee0662?d=identicon)[virtuecenter](/maintainers/virtuecenter)

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Top Contributors

[![ryan-mahoney](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/988609?v=4)](https://github.com/ryan-mahoney "ryan-mahoney (34 commits)")[![rmahoney-bsd](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6912313?v=4)](https://github.com/rmahoney-bsd "rmahoney-bsd (4 commits)")

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Tags

handlebars

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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