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This is what I want but probably can't have:
Using node.js and express and maybe ejs, I would like to, while writing a regular HTML file in my client dir, server-side-include a template block of HTML. It would be cool also if I could pass variables into the include from the HTML document.
Sooo something like:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<%include head, ({title: "Main Page"}) %>
</head>
<body>
<% include header, ({pageName: "Home", color: "red"}) %>
...
<<% include footer%>>
</body>
</html>
Is there anyhting in node world that works like this? Or any thing that comes close and that could be maybe adapted for this functionality? I would not use it exactly in the way indicated here, but this is the functionality that I am looking for.
I have looked into jade, handlebars, ember and ejs, and ejs seems to come the closest. Maybe one of these does this already, but I am just confused about the implementation.
Any suggestions would be great!
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I would recommend nunjucks or pejs. Nunjucks is jinja-inspired, while pejs is just ejs + inheritance, block, and file support.
pejs has some issues with space chomping at the moment, but it's still pretty useful. Of the two, I prefer the separation layer that comes with nunjucks.
Jade is pretty cool and has the feature-set you're looking for, but it has a very unique syntax. References for jade: template inheritance, blocks, includes
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