Phase 5 · Express.js & Web Frameworks
TopicsTemplating (EJS/Pug)
Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.
Summary
Server-side templating engines that let Express render dynamic HTML pages directly from the backend — less common now with API + frontend-framework architectures, but still used for emails and simple server-rendered apps.
How to Learn This
- 1Render a dynamic page with EJS, passing data from a route handler.
- 2Build an HTML email template using a templating engine.
- 3Understand why most modern apps separate the API from HTML rendering with a frontend framework instead.
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