EJS

What is EJS?

• What is the “E” for? “Embedded?” Could be. How about “Effective,” “Elegant,” or just “Easy”? EJS is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. No religiousness about how to organize things. No reinvention of iteration and control-flow. It’s just plain JavaScript.

EJS advantage:-

• Use plain JavaScript.
• Fast development time
• Simple syntax
• Speedy execution
• Easy debugging
• Active development

Tags:-

• <% ‘Scriptlet’ tag, for control-flow, no output.
• <%_ ‘Whitespace Slurping’ Scriptlet tag, strips all whitespace before it.
• <%= Outputs the value into the template (HTML escaped).
• <%- Outputs the unescaped value into the template.
• <%# Comment tag, no execution, no output.
• <%% Outputs a literal ‘<%’.
• %> Plain ending tag.
• -%> Trim-mode (‘newline slurp’) tag, trims following newline.
• _%> ‘Whitespace Slurping’ ending tag, removes all whitespace after it.