OK I got it...
server.js
var express = require('express');
var server = express();
var ejs = require('ejs');
ejs.open = '{{';
ejs.close = '}}';
var oneDay = 86400000;
server.use(express.compress());
server.configure(function(){
server.set("view options", {layout: false});
server.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
server.use(server.router);
server.set('view engine', 'html');
server.set('views', __dirname + "/www");
});
server.all("*", function(req, res, next) {
var request = req.params[0];
if((request.substr(0, 1) === "/")&&(request.substr(request.length - 4) === "html")) {
request = request.substr(1);
res.render(request);
} else {
next();
}
});
server.use(express.static(__dirname + '/www', { maxAge: oneDay }));
server.listen(process.env.PORT || 8080);
and in /www I have the following .html files:
index.html
{{include head.html}}
{{include header.html}}
<p class="well">Hello world!</p>
{{include footer.html}}
head.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7]> <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]> <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]> <html class="no-js lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> <html class="no-js"> <!--<![endif]-->
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
{{include include.css.html}}
<script src="js/vendor/modernizr-2.6.2.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
include_css.html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap-responsive.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
header.html
<div class="well">
<h1>HEADER</h1>
</div>
footer.html
<div class="well">
<h1>FOOTER</h1>
</div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/vendor/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"><\/script>')</script>
<script src="js/plugins.js"></script>
<script src="js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/main.js"></script>
<!-- Google Analytics: change UA-XXXXX-X to be your site's ID. -->
<script>
var _gaq=[['_setAccount','UA-XXXXX-X'],['_trackPageview']];
(function(d,t){var g=d.createElement(t),s=d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];
g.src='//www.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s)}(document,'script'));
</script>
</body>
</html>
It all comes through, even includes in includes and static content. It is all performed on html files, and in a context that feel like vanilla web authoring.
++++Oops+++++
Well I almost all of it. I forgot that I also wanted to be able to pass variables into the include from the templates. I haven't tried that yet... any ideas?
++++Update+++++
Ok I figured it out.
This discussion made it clear, i guess i just didn't know enough about how ejs worked.
I have changed index.html to begin with variable declarations:
{{
var pageTitle = 'Project Page';
var projectName = 'Project Title';
}}
and then you can call these variables from within the includes, no matter how deeply they are nested.
So for instance, index.html includes start.html which includes header.html. Within header .html I can call {{= projectName}} within the header even though it was declared inside index.html.
I have put the whole thing on github.
