# Why mixes widget and handlebars?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 22, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-mixes-widget-and-handlebars/104890 "2018-12-22T10:42:17Z")\
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> [@Chong\_An\_Chen](#):
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> why mixes widget and handlebars together?

For performance reasons.

> [@Chong\_An\_Chen](#):
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> I think that makes code more complicated and hard to maintain.

It does, but it’s a tradeoff we are ok to make for our hot paths.

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