ejs 'partial is not defined'
Okay I have a mostly static homepage but I wanted to have partial views that for navigation, footer ect. I'm using ejs and it looks like this:
my controller: home.js
// Dependencies
var express = require('express');
module.exports = {
get: function(req, res) {
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
var model = {
layout:'home',
};
res.render('home');
}
};
My views directory has nav, home and footer all .ejs
Then the actual html file stripped of text would look as following.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" >
<title>Tom Jones</title>
<!-- CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/home.css" type="text/css" media="screen" >
</head>
<body>
<%- partial('nav') %>
<!--content part -->
<div id="showcontainer">
<section>
</section>
</div>
<div id="maincontainer">
<section>
</section>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The Problem When ever I test it out I run into the error partial is not defined. I tried requiring ejs but no success.
Answer
As @Pickels said, Partial was removed in 3.x. However, the most recent version of EJS provides a mechanism for including "partials", called "include":
https://github.com/visionmedia/ejs#includes
Includes are relative to the template with the include statement, for example if you have "./views/users.ejs" and "./views/user/show.ejs" you would use <% include user/show %>. The included file(s) are literally included into the template, no IO is performed after compilation, thus local variables are available to these included templates.
The following will work as a replacement for your old partial() function. You'll need to make tweaks elsewhere to support Express 3.x completely, but for the most part this seems to work well (better actually - less code and more performant).
<% include nav.ejs %> <!-- replaces your old <%- partial('nav') %> -->