data-render

A Express.js middleware that pass data to templates automatically through render.

Install it

npm install data-render --save

Use it

You can do this in two ways. The first one is:

var express = require('express');
var dataRender = require('data-render');
var app = express();

//Use it as a middleware and pass your data as a object
//Pass as the object key the property you want to call inside the template
app.use(dataRender({
	pageContent: 'Some text here',  //Its value has to be a string
	userAuthenticated: {            //But if you wish to eval this string, make another object with content and eval keys
    	content:'request.user',       //The content key stores your data
    	eval: true                    //eval key verifies if data has to be evaluated
	}
}));

Or, you can pass it in routing:

var data = {
	pageContent: 'Some text here,
  	userAuthenticated: {
 		content:'request.user',
    	eval: true
	}
};

app.get('/your/route', dataRender(data), function(req, res) {
 	res.render('your/template);
});

A sample ejs template could be one like this:

<h1>Welcome</h1>
<p><%= pageContent %></p> <!-- uses the key name -->
<p>Username: <%= userAuthenticated.username %>

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