--- title: How To Use EJS to Template Your Node Application | daily.dev description: A step-by-step guide to using EJS (Embedded JavaScript Templates) with Express and Node.js. Covers project setup, configuring EJS as the view engine, creating... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-ejs-to-template-your-node-application-bkokehbns twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How To Use EJS to Template Your Node Application | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to using EJS (Embedded JavaScript Templates) with Express and Node.js. Covers project setup, configuring EJS as the view engine, creating... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-ejs-to-template-your-node-application-bkokehbns og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bkokEHBNs.png og:image:alt: How To Use EJS to Template Your Node Application og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [DigitalOcean Community](https://daily.dev/sources/do%5Fcommunity) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs) # [How To Use EJS to Template Your Node Application](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs "Go to post") A step-by-step guide to using EJS (Embedded JavaScript Templates) with Express and Node.js. Covers project setup, configuring EJS as the view engine, creating reusable partials (head, header, footer), passing data from routes to templates, rendering variables and looping over arrays, and handling XSS security with the correct output tags (<%= %> vs <%- %>). Also includes common error troubleshooting, a comparison with React/Vue and Pug, and FAQ-style answers about EJS in production. [#webdev](/tags/webdev "Check all #webdev posts")[#javascript](/tags/javascript "Check all #javascript posts")[#nodejs](/tags/nodejs "Check all #nodejs posts") Mar 18 • 22m read time • From [digitalocean.com](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs "digitalocean.com") [](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs "Go to post") Table of contents [Introduction](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=introduction "Introduction")[ Prerequisites](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=prerequisites "Prerequisites")[ Step 1 — Setting Up the Project](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=step-1-setting-up-the-project "Step 1 — Setting Up the Project")[ Step 2 — Configuring with server.js](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=step-2-configuring-with-server-js "Step 2 — Configuring with server.js")[ Step 3 — Creating the EJS Partials](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=step-3-creating-the-ejs-partials "Step 3 — Creating the EJS Partials")[ Step 4 — Adding the EJS Partials to Views](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=step-4-adding-the-ejs-partials-to-views "Step 4 — Adding the EJS Partials to Views")[ Step 5 — Passing Data to Views and Partials](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=step-5-passing-data-to-views-and-partials "Step 5 — Passing Data to Views and Partials")[ EJS Compared to Modern Frontend Frameworks](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=ejs-compared-to-modern-frontend-frameworks "EJS Compared to Modern Frontend Frameworks")[ Troubleshooting Common EJS Errors](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=troubleshooting-common-ejs-errors "Troubleshooting Common EJS Errors")[ FAQs](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=faqs "FAQs")[ Conclusion](https://api.daily.dev/r/bkokEHBNs?a=conclusion "Conclusion") Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughts Post Share this post [](https://daily.dev/sources/do%5Fcommunity) [DigitalOcean Community](https://daily.dev/sources/do%5Fcommunity "https://daily.dev/sources/do_community") DigitalOcean Community's platform is a central hub for developers and sysadmins using DigitalOcean's... 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