How to display hostname in EJS (and under webpack)

Question

I working under a webpack solution and using EJS to render my pages and i want to display the hostname (my-domain.com) in the render by the EJS file and avoid to inject from a all_script.js like file

I've tried things like this and that's actually not worked :

<%= window.location.hostname %>

The expected result would be "my-domain.com"

does the unformatted version of print work? `<%- window.location.hostname %>` — GrafiCode, Oct 11 '19 at 14:05
@GrafiCode, Hello, it returns me "ERROR in Template execution failed: ReferenceError: _ is not defined" — PedroZorus, Oct 11 '19 at 14:10
As you said you're using webpack, does that mean your ejs code is compiled at build time? In that case `window` will not be available. — vatz88, Oct 11 '19 at 14:17
@GrafiCode, yes but like vatz88 said, it's probably because webpack compile before the DOM generation — PedroZorus, Oct 11 '19 at 14:20
@PedroZorus It's at the build time, `window` will be available at run time. But to say anything more, I'll need to know how you're using `ejs` and how's it configured with webpack. — vatz88, Oct 11 '19 at 14:23
@vatz88 it's a simple rule : { test: /\.ejs$/, use: [ 'ejs-loader' ] } — PedroZorus, Oct 11 '19 at 14:31
Then it means it's transpiled at the build time. You can not use `window` since it won't be available. — vatz88, Oct 11 '19 at 14:41
Is that a way to launch it after transpilling like when we launch a `new Date()` function which works great in ejs ? — PedroZorus, Oct 11 '19 at 14:50

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '19 at 16:34

I have finally found an alternative solution :

If we think about it: the only result we can get is a local hostname. So if we really need to get to future hostname, we are going topass it like a parameter by the webpack config.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/59127401/12084219

In the case in the previous link replace the JSON by a simple string containing the URL.

How to display hostname in EJS (and under webpack)

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