JAVASCRIPT

ejs

app.set("view engine", "ejs");
app.set("views", __dirname + "/public");
app.use(express.static("public/assets/"));

how to set up ejs

const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3000

app.set('view engine', 'ejs')

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.render('pages/index')
})
app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`App listening at port ${port}`)
})

ejs js

$ npm install ejs

ejs tutorial

<ul>
  <% users.forEach(function(user){ %>
    <%- include('user/show', {user: user}); %>
  <% }); %>
</ul>

ejs

npm install ejs	//install ejs in cmd

ejs

let ejs = require('ejs');
let people = ['geddy', 'neil', 'alex'];
let html = ejs.render('<%= people.join(", "); %>', {people: people});

Ejs

Error: Failed to lookup view "events/edit" in views directory "/home/tcb/Mange/NodeApps/myapp11/views"
    at Function.render (/home/tcb/Mange/NodeApps/myapp11/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:580:17)
    at ServerResponse.render (/home/tcb/Mange/NodeApps/myapp11/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:1008:7)
    at /home/tcb/Mange/NodeApps/myapp11/routes/events.js:55:11
    at /home/tcb/Mange/NodeApps/myapp11/node_modules/mongoose/lib/model.js:4919:18
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:77:11)

ejs

/*EJS with express
In Express v4, a very basic setup using EJS would look like the following. 
(This assumes a views directory containing an index.ejs page.) */

let express = require('express');
let app = express();

//to set view engine for using EJS
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.render('index', {foo: 'FOO'});
});

app.listen(4000, () => console.log('Example app listening on port 4000!'));

ejs

ejs ./template_file.ejs -f data_file.json -o ./output.html

ejs

Tags
<% 'Scriptlet' tag, for control-flow, no output
<%_ ‘Whitespace Slurping’ Scriptlet tag, strips all whitespace before it
<%= Outputs the value into the template (HTML escaped)
<%- Outputs the unescaped value into the template
<%# Comment tag, no execution, no output
<%% Outputs a literal '<%'
%> Plain ending tag
-%> Trim-mode ('newline slurp') tag, trims following newline
_%> ‘Whitespace Slurping’ ending tag, removes all whitespace after it

ejs

EJS PLAYGROUND
Check out what ejs does at the playground in the source

js to ejs

Remove type module from package.json