What is view engine? What does it actually do?

Question

I started learning ASP.NET MVC3.

So, while reading tutorials online and in books, I came across this term \"view engine\" quite frequently. I don\'t know

Answer 1

So far every response is related to ASP.NET. If you are looking for a view engine for nodejs, then some of the following are options:

Jade (Pug)
express-handlebars
ejs
React

There's a whole list of them that I found at https://github.com/expressjs/express/wiki#template-engines but the above ones seem to be the ones I hear about the most.