Extend for multilingual layouts and templates about express-handlebars HOT 3 CLOSED

This sounds like an important feature to add, and if I can make a simple change to easily support what you're doing, I'm all for that!

To clarify, are you asking that I should pass the entire app/response locals object (fields in your example) to the _resolveLayoutPath() method?

Which would allow the following:

var app = require('express')(), 
    hbs = require('express3-handlebars').create({ /* ... */ });

app.engine('handlebars', hbs.engine);

hbs._resolveLayoutPath = function (locals) {
    var layoutPath = this.constructor.prototype._resolveLayoutPath.apply(this, arguments);
    return layoutPath.replace(/%language%/, locals.language);
};

// ...

app.render('foo.handlebars', {language: 'de'});

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Yes that will be a great solution. 👍

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@rottmann Okay, this change has been published to npm. Let me know if you run into anything else so we can keep thinking about adding first class multilingual support if the need arises.

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