EJS Templating Engine

EJS (Embedded JavaScript) is a popular, fast, and lightweight templating engine for Node.js and browsers. It enables the rendering of dynamic HTML by embedding plain JavaScript directly within template files using special tags like `<% %>` for control flow, `<%= %>` for escaped output, and `<%- %>` for unescaped raw output. The current stable version is 5.0.2, with an active release cadence. Key differentiators include its straightforward approach, leveraging native JavaScript for logic, and broad compatibility across Node.js environments (CommonJS and ES Modules) and all modern browsers, down to very old ones. It offers features such as static caching of compiled functions and templates, custom delimiters, and full compliance with the Express view system, making it a common choice for server-side rendering in web applications due to its simplicity and effectiveness.