Sometimes, we want to render a basic HTML view with Express and JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look at how to render a basic HTML view with Express and JavaScript.
How to render a basic HTML view with Express and JavaScript?
To render a basic HTML view with Express and JavaScript, we use the ejs package.
To install it, we run
npm install ejs --save
Then we write
app.set("views", __dirname + "/views");
app.engine("html", require("ejs").renderFile);
app.get("/about", (req, res) => {
res.render("about.html");
});
to set the view engine to ejs and the render about.html in the views folder in the /about route handler.
Conclusion
To render a basic HTML view with Express and JavaScript, we use the ejs package.
