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Gustavo Winter
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Gustavo Winter
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Posted by Gustavo Winter
Gustavo Winter
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Express and pug

Hello, i don't wanna use pug on my project. Is there another way than i can use express without Pug?

How can i implementing variables in the html without Pug?

1 Answer

Samuel Ferree
Samuel Ferree
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Samuel Ferree
Samuel Ferree
31,722 Points

If you want to use variables in your dynamic web application, you'll need some html template to render pages with. It's this rendering process that fills in the values of the variables you pass in.

That being said, pug is simply a popular choice to use with express, there are many choices you can use. They are listed here

Tom Gooding
Tom Gooding
16,735 Points
Tom Gooding
Tom Gooding
16,735 Points

Also check out this part of the docs for how to set the templating engine.

https://expressjs.com/en/guide/using-template-engines.html