Using interpolation within Node.js EJS includes

Question

My Express app is using EJS, and my views directory looks like this:

./views
  ./contents
    home.ejs
  ./includes
    header.ejs
    footer.ejs
  layout.ejs
         


        

Answer 1

I think there is no way to do this kind of dynamic includes in EJS. It might break the separation of business logic and view. The solution can be to rendering the subtemplate in the controller, and passing its content to the layout.

For rendering subtemplate in the controller use something like this:

var ejs = require('ejs'),
, fs = require('fs')
, home = ejs.render(fs.readFileSync("contents/home.ejs", "utf-8"))