How do I return a twig rendered template as part of a JSON response?

Question

I want to return an HTML snippet as well as other values in a json string, here is what I have:

$html = $this->render(\'sometemplate.html.twig\', array( \         


        

Answer 1

Use $this->renderView() instead.

$this->render() returns a Response object, while $this->renderView() returns a string resulting from rendering a template.