Pass request to every Swig template using Express

Question

Is it possible to pass request/req object to every template I render, so I wouldn't have to pass it as local in every render() method?

Answer 1

You can use res.locals for that.

Insert the following middleware somewhere before your routes:

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  res.locals.req = req;
  next();
});

This exposes req as a variable in your templates.