# What is the difference between raw.hbs handlerbar files and only .hbs handlerbar files?

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**Created:** [7 במרץ,‏ 2017,‏ 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-difference-between-raw-hbs-handlerbar-files-and-only-hbs-handlerbar-files/58565 "2017-03-07T16:41:59Z")\
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In some recent work, I’ve needed some of the template “tree” to be able to communicate data up from a leaf template using closure actions, so I’ve switched some of the hbr’s to hbs’s to support his.

The work is experimental and I appreciate this will have a performance impact, but after iterating the design a few times was unable to find an alternative way of doing this whilst keeping “in-framework”.

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