How to use EJS in Strapi

Question

I tried the official documentation, but this does not work.

https://github.com/strapi/strapi-docs/blob/master/files/views.md

Answer 1

Here is a guide on How to use EJS with Strapi

• Installed strapi-hook-ejs
• Update the .config/hook.json with

...
{
  "ejs": {
    "enabled": true,
    "layout": false,
    "viewExt": "ejs",
    "partial": true,
    "cache": false,
    "debug": true
  }
}
...

• Add this to the controller, say ./api/api-name/controllers/api-name.js

module.exports = {
  //GET /index
  index: async (ctx) => {
    ctx.render('home', {title: 'Hello world'});
  }
};

• Create a directory views in root folder
• Add your ejs templates in the ./views
• Example ./views/home.ejs

<%= title %>

Side note: In the above example, I have used the "index" in the controller api-name.js file. Make sure your API ./api/api-name/config/routes.json point to it.