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 your render function you can include fs.readFileSync and __dirname.

Render your page with options like this

res.render('pages/'+req.file,{file_get_contents:fs.readFileSync,__dirname:__dirname});

Then you can use it in your .ejs page like this. This remains in server side.

<% var products=JSON.parse(file_get_contents(__dirname+'/web/data/products.json','utf8')) %>

You can print the data on client HTML like this.

<%- JSON.stringify(products)%>

Note : Using this method means you have fs included somewhere at the top of your script.

var fs = require('fs')