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EJS Partials

Partials come in handy when you want to reuse the same HTML across multiple views.

Partials as functions, they make large websites easier to maintain as you don’t have to go and change a piece of text in every page it appears in.

How do you add partials in EJS?

The Correct way to include partials in the template according to this you should use: <%- include(‘partials/youFileName. ejs’) %>

Which is better pug or EJS?

The syntax of EJS can get cluttered very quick with all the percent signs, while pug is very readable, more pretty, and much faster to write than ordinary HTML.

### Why do we use EJS?

EJS simply stands for Embedded Javascript. It is a simple templating language/engine that lets its user generate HTML with plain javascript. EJS is mostly useful whenever you have to output HTML with a lot of javascript.

### How do you add partials in HTML?