`filename: 'src/src'` works, but `filename: 'src/'` does not?

Hi folks. Really happy with EJS.

This morning I found some things that seem weird around the <%- include %> feature.

Here are a couple of questions around the weirdness:

Why do I need filename on CLI, but not in express?

When I render a template with <%- include('') %> in an express server, I don’t get an error saying that I must use the filename option, but when I render the same template on the command line, I do. Does anyone know why that happens?

I think I found a bug – is a string like 'src/' filtered out anywhere in the code?

When compiling in the command line, if I specify src/ as the filename, it cannot find the files. If I specify src/src/ as the directory, it finds the files in the appropriate place. I don’t understand, because there’s only a src/, there is no src/src/.

I know this seems crazy. If you can’t reproduce or nothing comes to mind, I’ll try harder to reproduce under my conditions. Thanks for your time and effort!

[nchase]

awesome, thanks for the heads up. I created an issue in my repo (nchase/memetica#31) to remind me to fix this.

[RyanZim]

I don’t want you to have to spend too much effort on this – no need to be digging through my code

Well, I did anyhow! 😀

To fix your problem, you should delete Line 25, and edit Lines 53-72 to read:

ejs.renderFile(layoutPath, {
    data: {
      styles: data.styles
    },
    frameContent: content,
    index: contentPath.match('index.md') ? true : undefined,
    header: header,
    footer: footer,
    title: title,
    prefix: process.env.prefix || 'src/',
    requestStyle: '',
    bodyClass: data.bodyClass({
      frame: frame,
      singleColumn: matchers.singleColumn(content)
    }),
    hasCode: matchers.hasCode(content),
    notrack: false,
    published: true
  }, function(err, res){
    if (err) {
      // handle it
    } else {
      process.stdout.write(res);
    }
  });

Note that you’ll need to add error handling.

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EJS does have JSDoc annotations. To view the API docs, clone the repo and run:

npm i
npm run doc

Open out/index.html in your browser, and there you are!

If I missed something, you can comment below and I’ll reopen.