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node.jsexpresswebejs
Rupesh
Rupesh

Reputation: 890

Issue in passing the data to emailTemplate ejs file

I am trying to pass the token to the email Template which is an ejs file i.e emailTemplate.ejs But It's not getting rendered as the data instead it's getting rendered only as test i.e token variable is rendered as token text. Here is the code:


sendgridMail.setApiKey(sendGridApi)

const email = async (req, res, next) => {
  const user = await User.findOne({ email: req.body.email })
  let token
  if (user) {
    token = user.tokens.slice(-1)[0].token
    console.log('token before sending email ', token)
  }
  const filePath = path.join(__dirname, '/../../views/emailTemplate.ejs')
  // TO PASS TOKEN TO EMAIL TEMPLATE EJS FILE
  ejs.renderFile(filePath, { token: token }, (err, data) => {
    if (err) {
      console.log('Error in renderFile ', err)
    } else {
      // console.log('ejs data ', data)
      const message = {
        to: req.body.email,
        from: '[email protected]',
        subject: `Welcome to Donut ${req.body.name.firstName}`,
        html: data
      }
      sendgridMail.send(message).then(
        () => {
          console.log('sending email')
          next()
        },
        (error) => {
          res.status(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST).send({
            error: process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY
              ? error.response.body
              : 'Setup SENDGRID_API_KEY environment variable'
          })
        }
      )
    }
  })
}

HERE IS EMAIL TEMPLATE EJS trying to render the URL 

 <p>http://localhost:5000/user/activate/ <=% token %></p> // TOKEN IS NOT GETTING RENDERED HERE

Whreas alraedy configured as ejs veiw engine in server.js

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'))
app.set('view engine', 'ejs')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (1)

stefan.iordache
stefan.iordache

Reputation: 29

I think it's just a ejs syntax error. Passing a parameter to a template should look like this.

<%= token %>

Upvotes: 1

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