# Rendering a new template

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rendering-a-new-template/68711
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rendering-a-new-template/68711 "2017-08-24T16:49:53Z")
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### Author: ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rendering-a-new-template/68711/1 "2017-08-24T16:49:53Z")

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I’m a bit confused how to go about rendering a new handlebar template on a separate route and I don’t think the various excellent plugin tutorials cover my question.

Let’s say I want to render a simple `<p>hello {{variable}}</p>`, at [discourse.example.com/helloworld?variable=world](http://discourse.example.com/helloworld?variable=world) but with the discourse menu on top?

1. where would I define the route
2. would I need a controller
3. what should be in my handlebar file?

Thank you for any pointers you might give me

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### Author: ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rendering-a-new-template/68711/2 "2017-08-25T11:41:07Z")

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fyi: I got this figured out a bit 🙂

Enough to know that I’ll need a true Ember dev to turn my PoC of yesterday into something that’ll actually work 😃