How to send server-side data to view file in Express?

Coding Help
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Hi folks, I’m wondering if it’s possible to send data from the server to the view (HTML) file in an Express app (such as Glitch’s hello-express)?

For example, in Koa, we can do this:

router.get('/', (ctx, next) => {
  return ctx.render('./index', { 
    user: 'eka' 
  })
})

I’ve been looking around for examples of Express apps that do similar thing in server.js (not in client.js) but haven’t found any.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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Hey @ekafyi – I know it’s been a while, but I’d be happy to help with this if you’re still looking for an answer! I was just working on this issue myself last week.

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You can use the ejs module to pass the user as <%= user %>