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Josi
Josi

Reputation: 19

How to send a variable from express to pug?

I want to send a variable from Express to Pug.

Therefore I found already that I have to use res.render(), but if I try this, I only get an undefined variable.

In my index.js: 

app.post("/example", upload.single("photo"), (req, res) => { 
  {... some code}
  var html = "some text";
  res.render("results", {
    html: html
  });

and in my results.pug I try to show the text as a string:

p "#{html}"

At the moment I only get two "" on my page. But I need to show the result

Thank you for your help!!!! :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 428

Answers (1)

Graham
Graham

Reputation: 7802

Your issue is with how you are calling the variable in your pug template. This is the easiest way to do it:

p= html

or

p
  div= html

If you really wanted to use interpolation the syntax would be:

p #{html}

I'd bet that if you View Source on your current page you will have something that looks like this:

<p>#{html}</p>

Upvotes: 1

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