Pass variable to EJS include

Question

I have a global header used in a couple of places and I was trying to define its location in a variable that could be passed when rendering a template.

Something like:

var headerLocation = 'some/location/header.ejs';  res.render( viewDir + '/index', {         header: headerLocation      } ); 

And in a template file:

<% include header %> 

header being the value passed in with the render.

It doesn't seem to be possible but maybe I missed something so thought I'd ask here.

EDIT:

This is mentioned in comments on answers below but to summarize, this is now available in version 2 of EJS.

See here: https://github.com/mde/ejs#includes And related discussion here: https://github.com/tj/ejs/issues/93

Answer 1

Here is some demo code that can accomplish dynamic includes.

View

<div flex class="main-container">     <%- include(page) %> </div> 

Router

router.get('/', function (req, res, next) {     res.render('pages/index', {         page: 'home'     }); }); 

Answer 2

This feature has been added: if it is not path (file not found), it is evaluated as variable name. https://github.com/visionmedia/ejs/pull/156