With Express 3.0: <%- include myview.ejs %> the path is relative from the caller who includes the file, not from the views directory set with app.set(“views”, “path/to/views”). EJS v1 includes EJS v2 includes (Update: the newest syntax for ejs v3.0.1 is <%- include(‘myview.ejs’) %>)
I had this exact same problem a couple of days ago and couldn’t figure it out. Haven’t managed to fix the problem properly but this works as a temporary fix: Go up one level (above app.js) and do npm install ejs. It will create a new node_modules folder and Express should find the module then.
With EJS you can have several tags: <% code %> … which is code that is evaluated but not printed out. <%= code %> … which is code that is evaluated and printed out (escaped). <%- code %> … which is code that is evaluated and printed out (not escaped). Since you want to print … Read more
I used Jade before. The nice thing about Jade is that you have a shorter syntax which means you can type faster. The block in Jade is pretty powerful which can help me a lot when dealing with complex HTML code. On the other hand, it is hard to do some simple stuff in Jade, … Read more
Conditionals work if they’re structured correctly, I ran into this issue and figured it out. For conditionals, the tag before else has to be paired with the end tag of the previous if otherwise the statements will evaluate separately and produce an error. ERROR! <% if(true){ %> <h1>foo</h1> <% } %> <% else{ %> <h1>bar</h1> … Read more
The same way you would do it with anything in js, typeof foo == ‘undefined’, or since “locals” is the name of the object containing them, you can do if (locals.foo). It’s just raw js :p