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express-ejs-layouts

Layout support for ejs in express.

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express-ejs-layouts

Layout support for ejs in express.

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Installation

npm install express-ejs-layouts

Usage

var express = require('express')
  , app = express()
  , expressLayouts = require('express-ejs-layouts')

app.set('view engine', 'ejs')
app.set('layout', 'myLayout') // defaults to 'layout'     

app.use(expressLayouts)
app.use(app.router)

app.get('/', function(req, res){
  res.render('aView', { layout: 'someSpecificLayout' })
})

app.listen(3000)

contentFor

A view

somebody
<%- contentFor('foo') %>
club
<%- contentFor('bar') %>
fight

With a layout

<%-bar%> <%-foo%>
<%-body%>

Renders

fight club
somebody

Script blocks extraction

If you like to place all the script blocks at the end, you can do it like this:

app.set("layout extractScripts", true)

A view

something<script>somejs<script>something

With a layout

...
<body>
<%- body %>
<%- script %>
</body>

Renders

...
<body>
somethingsomething
<script>somejs<script>
</body>

Enabling invididually:

req.render('view', { parseScript: true })

Optional sections

In a layout, you can have optional sections using defineContent: Unspecified section content defaults to ''.

1
<%-defineContent('a')%>
2
<%-defineContent('b')%>
3

with a view:

<%- contentFor('a') %>
1.5

will render:

1
1.5
2
3

Running tests

Clone the rep

make test

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MIT

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Package last updated on 26 May 2014

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