Layouts in Express 3 and EJS

Question

In version 3 of Express some features were removed:

the concept of a \"layout\" (template engine specific now)
partial() (template engine specific)

Answer 1

I struggled with this as well. So I put up a github project with an example for ejs and dustjs.

https://github.com/chovy/express-template-demo

I'm not sure the difference between a partial and an include, you don't need to explicitly pass data to an include. Not sure why you would want a partial.

But for a layout, you just specify a block like this:

//layout.ejs

<%- body %>


//page1.ejs
<% layout('layout') -%>
This is loaded from page 1 and overrides <%- body %> in the layout.ejs.

If anyone wants to add more examples, just submit a pull request.