How to do Templating using ExpressJS in Node.js ?

Template Engine : A template engine basically helps us to use the static template files with minimal code. At runtime, the template engine replaces all the variables with actual values at the client-side.

Templating Engine Examples:

• EJS (Embedded JavaScript Templating)
• Pug
• Mustache

In this article we are going to use EJS engine.

• Setting up NPM packages:

  npm init -y

• Installing Dependencies 

  npm install ejs express --save

Basic ExpressJS Server: Output:

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Adding of EJS Engine: Here we need to set ejs as our view engine.

Filename: index.ejs Output:

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Rendering of EJS file: Storing of data :  Here we have to store the data var name = "<%= data %>". Output:

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