Using interpolation within Node.js EJS includes

Question

My Express app is using EJS, and my views directory looks like this:

./views
  ./contents
    home.ejs
  ./includes
    header.ejs
    footer.ejs
  layout.ejs
         


        

Answer 1

In the version 2 of EJS, the include function does it well. With it, includes are inserted at runtime so variables can be used as pathnames.

In this case, the solution may be :

<%- include('contents/' + contents) %>

The function can also have another argument if necessary :

<%- include('mypathname', {foo:"bar"}) %>

The pathname has to be relative to the template which calls the function.