EJS

EMBEDDED JAVASCRIPT TEMPLATING

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

How to Install?

npm install ejs

Options

• views An array of paths to use when resolving includes with relative paths.
• contextfunction execution context
• clientreturns standalone compiled function
• debugoutputs generated function body
• strictwhen set to true generated functions is in strict mode

Tags

• <% scriptlet tag, for control flow, no out put
• <%_ white space slurping,strips all white space before it
• <%= outputs the value into the template
• <%- outputs the unescaped value in the template
• <%# comment tag, no output
• <%% output is litteral
• %> plain ending tag
• -%> trim-mode tag

• _%> removes all whitespace after it

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