How can I turn an EJS template into a string?
Depending on the ejs version the following should work.
var ejs = require('ejs'), fs = require('fs'), file = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/template.ejs', 'ascii'), rendered = ejs.render(file, { locals: { items:[1,2,3] } });console.log(rendered);You may need to install ejs if it isn't already installed.
cd;npm install ejs
You don't need to use fs. This is built into EJS (not sure if it was at the time previous answer was posted).
It returns a Promise however so you could use Async/await to get the value:
let htmlasync function myFunc() { html = await ejs.renderFile(filePath, data, options)} console.log(html)Alternatively it provides a callback function:
ejs.renderFile(filePath, data, options, function(err, html) { console.log(html)})