In Express 4.x I used the following to load ejs:
var path = require('path');
// Set the default templating engine to ejs
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
// The views/index.ejs exists in the app directory
app.get('/hello', function (req, res) {
res.render('index', {title: 'title'});
});
Then you just need two files to make it work - views/index.ejs:
<%- include partials/navigation.ejs %>
And the views/partials/navigation.ejs:
<ul><li class="active">...</li>...</ul>
You can also tell Express to use ejs for html templates:
var path = require('path');
var EJS = require('ejs');
app.engine('html', EJS.renderFile);
// Set the default templating engine to ejs
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
// The views/index.html exists in the app directory
app.get('/hello', function (req, res) {
res.render('index.html', {title: 'title'});
});
Finally you can also use the ejs layout module:
var EJSLayout = require('express-ejs-layouts');
app.use(EJSLayout);
This will use the views/layout.ejs as your layout.