Accessing passed EJS variable in Javascript file

Question

RESTful routes js file:

// index route - show all todos
router.get(\"/\", middleware.isLoggedIn,function(req,res) {
  Todo.find({ \"author.id\" : req.user._i         


        

Answer 1

By formatting the html printing of the JSON you get from the server and using javascript (my case jQuery) to retrieve that text, store it, and remove it from the html :)

EJS:

JavaScript:

var variableJSON = JSON.parse($('#variableJSON').text());
$('#variableJSON').remove();