My Express app is using EJS, and my views directory looks like this:
./views
./contents
home.ejs
./includes
header.ejs
footer.ejs
layout.ejs
I'm trying to load home.ejs in my layout.ejs view conditionally based on a local variable named contents
in my routes/index.js. That file looks like this:
/*
* GET home page.
*/
exports.index = function(req, res){
res.render('index', { title: 'Home', contents: 'home.ejs' });
};
Ideally I could simply write (in layout.ejs):
<% include '/contents' + contents %>
where the trailing "contents" is the local variable which contains the relative path to the body text to load.
But alas, it appears EJS always interprets the text following an include
directive literally, and there is no chance for any interpolation magic to happen.
I've also tried to no avail:
<% function yieldContent(contents){ %>
<% var contentPath = 'contents/' + contents; %>
<% include contentPath %>
<% }; %>
<% loadContent(); %>
Does anyone have a creative solution for conditionally including a view based on a variable passed in routes?