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11	EJS

EJS template engine

Introduction

EJS is among the most popular tempate view engines for node.js and expressjs. EJS simply stands for Embedded JavaScript templates, and we can use it both server-side or client-side. At this story.

Basic Syntax(Tags):

• <% ‘Scriptlet’ tag, for control-flow, no output.

• <%= Outputs the value into the template (HTML escaped).

• <%- Outputs the unescaped value into the template.

Partials

In this section we’ll learn how to use <%- include(‘’)-%> tag.

Project structure:

Lets see our index.js file:

home.ejs

EJS uses <%- include(‘’)-%> tag to include HTML from other files, in our app, we have the HTML templates at /views/template folder.

Render Links

Paste the new router at app.js file with some data to send

Create a new file with name links.ejs in views/pages folder and paste the following code

This time at res.render function after the name of the file we want to render we pass a JSON object.

This JSON object will pass to the view pages/links.ejs. At this point, we use foreach function to iterate the links array and use “<%=” tag to output the properties url and name.