hvarday/learnejs

This project will help a person understand the working of EJS (Embedded JavaScript).

learnEJS

This project will help a person understand the working of EJS (Embedded JavaScript).

###Views

View is the webpage that will be served to the client, it can be static/dynamic. The server, when requested with a particular route, it serves the view along with data according to request.

This repository contains the following views which are stroed in views folder

• /
• /sample

###New Views(In Progress)

• /product
• /projects
• /record

###Instructions for Installation

• Clone this repo
• Install Node.js from here
• Install Dependencies npm install
• Run the server npm start
• Goto localhost:3000

###Example

Suppose this object { "Name":"David Bowie", "Songs":["Man who sold the world", "Starman", "Space Oddity"] } is provided by the server to a particular view, and this data is to be displayed on the page which is requested by the client, then the view will include the following lines of code-

1. <%= key %> - will result in rendering the value of key (property of the object defined above).

<%= Name %> - In this case it will be `David Bowie`

2. <% %> - will execute as normal javascript.

   For displaying the list of Songs -

   <%  for(var i=0; i<Songs.length; i++){  %>
       <%= Songs[i]  %>
   <%  } %>    
   

For documentation on EJS goto this site -> http://embeddedjs.com/