Nested ejs templates can't access global helper

[wingy]

I have nested ejs templates to keep everything DRY.

Here is an example response:

    res.render('layout', {

      title: 'Home',

      body: ejs.render(contactTemplate, {

        list: list

      })

    });

All of my templates needs a helper I have put in app.locals.

But that one seems only be accessible by templates rendered by res.render() and not by ejs.render().

How can I allow nested ejs templates but still being able to access app.locals in all of them?

Wingy

[Filipe]

Hey, this is a very cool solution for not being able to use partials
with EJS, right?

Despite the scope problem, this solution works fine?

[Johnny Luu]

Yeah this works fine since you can have infinite nestings!

But I really need a global helper in all of my ejs templates.

Any idea?

Wingy

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[wingy]

There is an excellent include function in ejs: https://github.com/visionmedia/ejs

I ended up doing:

    res.render('contact_template', {

      title: 'Home',

      list: list

    });

Inside contact_template.ejs I used:

    <% include head %>

to include the head section.

That made it pretty DRY and also now you can see the whole HTML from the partials!

Even better imo.

Wingy

[Filipe]

Awesome, thanks! :)

[vinit agrawal]

is the template data passed at res.render() available for the nested template included using <%- include head %>  ? for example you have nested templates which expect some data for rendering then is the data passed at res.render() available to it, since include in <%- include head %> only takes one arg which is the ejs template file name