EJS is a JavaScript templating engine that works much like Underscore.js and also uses ERB <% %> style delimiters. Alternatively, it also allows the use of [% %] style tags for delimiters.
Just like Underscore.js, EJS allows arbitrary JavaScript to be parsed when used with the standard <% %> ERB style syntax, and allows the evaluation of expressions using an equals sign = following the opening delimiter tag <%= %>:
<ul>
<% for (var i = 0; i < people.length; i++) { %>
<li><%= firstName %> <%= lastName %></li>
<% } %>
</ul>
This template can be used to iterate over a list of objects from which key names are evaluated as variables with different values:
{
"people": [
{ "firstName": "Peebo", "lastName": "Sanderson" },
{ "firstName": "Udis", "lastName": "Petroyka" },
{ "firstName": "Jarmond", "lastName": "Dittlemore...