Should Handlebars be a dependency?

Since not all users will necessarily use templating, and those that do can simply pass the output from Handlebars (or potentially some other HTML template library that might better suit their needs), should Handlebars really be a hard dependency for the package?

Start by inspecting the package manifest and the Handlebars integration to determine where the dependency is required and how templating output is passed through. Compare the current dependency behavior with the issue's proposed optional-library approach; done means the package no longer requires Handlebars for users who do not use templating, while templating behavior remains supported.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.