template-url-middleware

Middleware for Express framework that provides current request URL as property to render engine. So it can be accessed in any template without passing it in each response.render() call

Install

npm i template-url-middleware --save

Example

Lets assume we have app.js file with application and a view directory with file home.ejs (or you can use any other template engine)

// app.js 
const express = require('express');
const urlMiddleware = require('template-url-middleware');

const app = express();
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.set('views', 'views');

// Prodive current path to all templates globally
// Provided string will be used as name of template property (default is 'path')
app.use(urlMiddleware('path'));
app.use('/home', (res, res) => {
  res.render('home', {
    myProperty: 'Hello'
  });
});
app.listen();

After you will be able to refference this path property in templates

<!-- Fragment of template views/home.ejs -->
<ol>
  <li><%= path %></li> <!-- will resolve to  '/home' -->
  <li><%= myProperty %></li>
<ol>