How to pass data from EJS template to AngularJS controller

Question

I've got the user data from ExpressJS through NodeJS as following:

app.js

app.get('/user', function(req, res) {
    res.render('users', { title: 'Foo', user: req.user });
});

users.ejs

<%= user %>

I need the user data from user.ejs above to an angularjs controller, so I could display that on other named views.

Could somebody help me with it?

Answer 1

Some say ng-init but it just feels dirty and wrong to me. You can put it inline and mess with the window and rootscope but it can get messy. Or you can inline another module like:

<script>
   angular.module('PreloadedData', [])
     .constant('User', <%- user %>);
</script>

Then it will be available like any other dependency.