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Learning Node.js Development

You're reading from   Learning Node.js Development Learn the fundamentals of Node.js, and deploy and test Node.js applications on the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395540
Length 658 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up 2. Node Fundamentals – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 3. Node Fundamentals – Part 2 4. Node Fundamentals – Part 3 5. Basics of Asynchronous Programming in Node.js 6. Callbacks in Asynchronous Programming 7. Promises in Asynchronous Programming 8. Web Servers in Node 9. Deploying Applications to Web 10. Testing the Node Applications – Part 1 11. Testing the Node Applications – Part 2 12. Another Book You May Enjoy

Rendering templates

In the last couple sections, we looked at multiple ways that we can render HTML using Express. We passed some HTML into response.send, but obviously that was not ideal. It's a real pain to write the markup in a string. We also created a public directory where we can have our static HTML files, such as our help file, and we can serve these up to the browser. Both of those work great but there is a third solution, and that will be the topic in this section. The solution is a templating engine.

A templating engine will let you render HTML but do it in a dynamic way, where we can inject values, such as a username or the current date, inside the template, kind of like we would in Ruby or PHP. Using this templating engine, we'll also be able to create reusable markup for things such as a header or a footer, which is going to be the same on a lot of your...

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