Extract text from HBS files
To convert your HBS file to another format, you need Handlebars.js or other Web software.
To convert other file formats to the "Template Source Code" file type, you need software like Handlebars.js or a similar tool.
The .HBS extension is most frequently associated with Handlebars, a popular logic-less templating engine for JavaScript. These files contain standard HTML structure mixed with Handlebars expressions enclosed in double curly braces (e.g., {{value}}), used to dynamically insert data into web pages. While essential for dynamic frontend development, .HBS files cannot be viewed directly in a web browser like Chrome or Firefox; attempting to open them usually displays raw source code rather than the rendered design. This creates a barrier for designers or clients who need to preview the visual layout without running a Node.js server or build pipeline. To bridge this gap, users often convert .HBS files to standard HTML for previewing, PDF for static design sign-offs, or plain TXT for code review.
A significant secondary use of the .HBS format is in the physics-based multiplayer game HaxBall. In this context, the file serves as a Stadium Map definition. Despite the shared extension, HaxBall files are actually structured as JSON data defining geometry and physics. Because they are technically JSON, users frequently need to convert or rename them to JSON or TXT to edit map properties manually in a text editor or to ensure compatibility with third-party map editors.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HBS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted HANDLEBARS, HTML, VMSG, TXT, PDF, HEIC, PNG, HTM, JSON and HRC files.
If you want to convert HBS file to HTML, HRC, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB or GO, you can use Handlebars.js or similar software from the "Dynamic Web Templating" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to HBS, try Handlebars.js or another comparable tool in the "Dynamic Web Templating" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HBS converter.