Accessing EJS variable in Javascript logic

Question

I\'m working on a Node.js app (it\'s a game). In this case, I have some code set up such that when a person visits the index and chooses a room, he gets redirected to the pr

Answer 1

You could directly inject the gameState variable into javascript on the page.

<% if (gameState) { %>
     
I have a game state!
     
<% } %>

Another option might be to make an AJAX call back to the server once the page has already loaded, return the gameState JSON, and set clientGameState to the JSON response.

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