i've been closing in on a node application using express and ejs, but when i try to hand data to my view from the controller like so
var myData = {
theData: data
};
res.render(path.join(__dirname + '/../views/index'), myData);
i get a nice error
ReferenceError:.. myData is not defined eval (from ejs lib)
when trying to access myData in the view like so
var data = <%-myData%>;
or in any other way basically, i've tried stringifying the data, wrapping it in another object and stuff like that but it still just won't show up, i have the feeling i'm missing something really basic here, does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
The second argument you pass to
render()
is an object containing the view variables you want to use in your template. So the error you are seeing makes sense. If you want to usemyData
in that way you'd have to do something like this in your controller/app: