Get resulting view as string, instead of rendering

[Alex Brown]

I'm trying to use my view templates to generate HTML for sending emails.

Is there a way to do this with express?

Should i be using the template engine directly?

kind of like:

var html = render('myView', model:myModel);

[Sugarstack]

You can pass a callback to res.render. That will stop it sending anything, and you can access the rendered HTML (or err) to do w/e with.

[tjholowaychuk]

there's app.render() and res.render(), res.render() has an optional callback of (err, html), and app.render always requires a callback