ExpressJS Get resulting source from view instead of rendering it

Question

I'm intending to use some ejs templates to generate HTML for sending out emails.

I'd like to pass in a model to my view, and get back the resulting HTML So, instead of render() - i want to 'get' the html into a variable before it's passed back to the browser?

Is that possible?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '12 at 03:42

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Something like the following will work:

var ejs = require('ejs');
var str = ejs.render("<title><%= title %></title>", {title: 'Hello'});
console.log(str);

answered Apr 19 '12 at 03:42

deltanovember

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thanks... can i specify a path to the view instead of the actual value of the template..? – Alex Apr 19 '12 at 07:42
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You could use the fs package to load your .ejs straight from the file system – deltanovember Apr 19 '12 at 08:09

ExpressJS Get resulting source from view instead of rendering it

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