reading-notes

EJS

• EJS is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript.

1. Features

   • Fast compilation and rendering
   • Simple template tags: <% %>
   • Custom delimiters (e.g., use <? ?> instead of <% %>)
   • Includes
   • Both server JS and browser support
   • Static caching of intermediate JavaScript
   • Static caching of templates
   • Complies with the Express view system
2. set EJS as the view engine for our Express application using app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
3. send a view to the user by using res.render() (res.render() will look in a views folder for the view)
4. there will be a lot of code that is reused. We’ll call those partials and define three files we’ll use across all of our site: head.ejs, header.ejs, and footer.ejs.
5. Using Partials The syntax to use an EJS partial is: <% include FILENAME %>.