How to handle an if statement in a mustache template?

@ryleigh 

When working with Mustache templates, you typically do not have the ability to have if statements directly in the template itself. Instead, you would need to handle conditional logic in your data before passing it to the template.

One common approach is to preprocess your data before passing it to the template. For example, you could add a boolean property to your data object that determines whether a certain condition is met, and then use this property in the template to display different content based on the condition.

Here is an example using JavaScript to preprocess the data:

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const data = {
  name: 'Alice',
  isAdmin: true
};

// Preprocess data
data.isAdminString = data.isAdmin ? 'Administrator' : 'User';

// Pass preprocessed data to the template
const template = '{{name}} is an {{isAdminString}}';
const output = Mustache.render(template, data);

console.log(output); // Output: "Alice is an Administrator"

In this example, we add a new property isAdminString to the data object based on the value of isAdmin, and then use this property in the template to display different content.