# Autocomplete still using Raw Templates

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/autocomplete-still-using-raw-templates/348904
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/autocomplete-still-using-raw-templates/348904 "2025-01-24T21:26:25Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/autocomplete-still-using-raw-templates/348904/4 "2025-04-04T13:37:44Z")

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We are planning to replace the JQuery-based autocomplete implementation in the near future. But for now, in order to unblock the removal of the raw-handlebars compilation pipeline, we’re replacing the autocomplete `.hbr` templates with vanilla JS.

Here’s the core PR:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/31957](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/31957)

and similar ones for some third-party plugins:

- [DEV: Drop dependency on raw-hbs templates by davidtaylorhq · Pull Request #127 · merefield/discourse-locations · GitHub](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-locations/pull/127)
- [DEV: Remove Handlebars dependency by davidtaylorhq · Pull Request #299 · paviliondev/discourse-custom-wizard · GitHub](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-custom-wizard/pull/299)

Admittedly it would’ve been much better if we’d deprecated these things a few months ago. But, I’ve searched `all-the-*` and haven’t found any other people who were depending on this, so we’re planning to push forward with the removal in core next week.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/32081](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/32081)

If anyone else runs into any problems, please feel free to post here and we’ll be happy to help.

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