That's a possibility.

The templates are always going to compile into 1 javascript file, even if you just include them with `text!`.  You have to do a little more work though to get them pre-compiled.

Pre-compiling a template could be done in a build script (although I'm not sure I'm fond of that method), or with a different Requirejs plugin (example: https://github.com/epeli/requirejs-hbs/).  The amount of code necessary to get pre-compiled templates though is considerably less than `require-handlebars-plugin`, since it's doing a ton of other things as well.

At this point, I really have no idea what the best solution would be.  We should probably look into including the runtime version of Handlebars in the build as well, which would be quite a bit smaller (no compiler code required).

This might be something worth taking a day or two to investigate all the options for webview, atc, and cnx-user at some point down the road though.