Ember applications use a templating engine to display HTML and dynamic content to the user. In Ember, this is done via the Handlebars templating library. This library takes Handlebars expressions and renders them to the screen using data binding.

HTMLbars is a variant of Handlebars that Ember uses as well. It has better performance and handles building the DOM in a more efficient manner. Keep in mind that for this chapter, we'll be using HTMLbars and Handlebars interchangeably as they essentially do the same thing.

In this chapter, we'll be going over how to use templates in our applications.