res.sendfile in Node Express with passing data along

Question

Is there any way to redirect to an HTML file from a Node.JS application with something like: res.sendFile of express and pass a JSON data along to the html file?

Answer 1

You only have one response you can return from the server. The most common thing to do would be to template your file on the server with nunjucks or jade. Another choice is to render the file on the client and then to use javascript to make an ajax call to the server to get additional data. I suppose you could also set some data in a cookie and then read that on the client side via javascript as well.