# EJS Reviews **Vendor:** Bitovi **Category:** [JavaScript Web Frameworks](https://www.g2.com/categories/javascript-web-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About EJS EJS is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. ## EJS Reviews ### 1. Okay for a templating engine **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2021 **What do you like best about EJS?** It's very simple to get started with. Has a decent performance too. **What do you dislike about EJS?** I don't like some of the syntaxes that ejs uses. It's fine for the most part though. But I wish it was closer to JS in some cases. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** If you want a templating engine with a decent set of features, then EJS maybe a hassle free solution. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes we like to make a prototype of web pages for testing our user flows. Ejs is quite easy to use for this use case. ### 2. Reviewing the ejs framework for all devs out there **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** junaid s. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** Ejs makes using html in js so simple and easy. **What do you dislike about EJS?** The syntax is a bit tedious to get along with at the start. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** Ejs is an extremely great product to use but you need to learn the syntax . If the syntax can be eased a little bit than using ejs would be a charm. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I Like using it for showing dynamic content on the go. Instead of using frameworks like react,angular etc i can just go ahead and use ejs . ### 3. experice about EJS when i switch fetch fun to res.render() **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ambesh S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** We can use DOM to call fetch function but after that anyone one like me when I use EJS seriously I feel amazing and easy workflow when I use HTML with JS without and linksheet **What do you dislike about EJS?** right now nothing because I feel the amazing experience with a node with EJS **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** My dear friends, EJS has a really smart error handling mechanism built right into it. It points out to you, the line numbers on which an error has occurred so that you don't end up looking through the whole template file wasting your time in searching for bugs. EJS is ranked 4th while React is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose EJS is: EJS uses all the JS jargon and logic, so if you're proficient in JS, you can use EJS right away. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** benefits like easy to execution flow, easy to testing ### 4. EJS Framework Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gazi Md. S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** While working with Express js I can easily communicate with the server and display data dynamically from the server to the client end. EJS is very easy to use. If you know basic HTML then you can easily write EJS. All you just need to learn how to write the syntax of the EJS. EJS caches the intermediate JS functions for fast execution which played a vital role in rapid development. This is very straightforward and great for dynamic development. **What do you dislike about EJS?** This is more difficult to read, especially for designer/HTML people who don't write JavaScript or don't have any basic idea of JavaScript. While debugging the error messages are not so helpful at all to me. Including Javascript and HTML on the same page could be a bit messy but I think it's ok. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ejs helped me to display dynamic data from the server basically which is known as server-side rendering and fast development. Solved templating problem. ### 5. Peter Minea - Review on EJS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** Its capacity to serve as a communication way between front-end and back-end (I am currently using it on a Node.js web application as a full-stack developer, and it helps me fast communicate with back-end variables (including the translations of the application!) from front-end HTML and Javascript blocks incorporated in HTML files. Its specific <% %> syntax provides us, developers, a great opportunity to handle back-end data from front-end and incorporate it into local variables. We pass the back-end data as parameters to the EJS View page - from the controller - and then, there we are! **What do you dislike about EJS?** In plain Javascript (no HTML/EJS) files we cannot use the <% %> syntax to communicate with the back-end variables, like we can do in HTML-oriented code in .ejs files. Also, the Prettier plugin for formatting source code in Visual Studio Code is not very prepared to understand specific EJS markup - but it still able to format code in EJS files - whereas the Beautify plugin even deletes the markup data between <>, thus I had to disable this plugin for my project. Visual Studio Code is not yet fully prepared for EJS, my specific EJS code with <% %> markup is interpreted as "error code" with red signs. However, the code is compiled and works - which is good after all. Let's hope that EJS will be more supported on VSC, with modern code formatter plugins! **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** If you worked with JSP, HTML, and CSS before and you want to learn a new front-end technology, then go for EJS! You will make it. The associated HTML syntax is already familiar to you. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementing the front-end part of a web application that has also been one of the winning projects in the EUvsVirus Hackathon in 2020. It works well with Bootstrap also! I built tens of pages with EJS in my application andI will continue working with it. ### 6. Ejs is simple but does a lot. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zsolt K. | Warehouse Team Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** Ejs works well with NodeJs and you can easily collaborate with React too. It is not hard at all, just need to learn basic mechanism, which takes 30 minutes at most. Actually workin with ejs templates makes it easier then using pure html. **What do you dislike about EJS?** I would appreciate more support from code editors like sublime, or visual studio code, etc for ejs snippets, syntax support and beautify options. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** Use it over the other 2 common template languages. I tried 3 this is the defenite winner **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using ejs templates when working with such a db like mongodb, to access my data and update. Ability to access route variables. Mostly using for listing my data using forEach function. ### 7. Ejs is a very good template language but not very effective now a days **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bilal Y. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** The advantages to using ejs is that it attaches with node js and it is very easy to integrate with node js and we can easy add our js logic in html tags use ejs tags. No need to add script tags. **What do you dislike about EJS?** As a said Ejs is a good template language but reason it is not used these days is because of new and popular libraries and frameworks of javascript. These libraries have more advantages then Ejs. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** It is a good thing to use. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very easy to integrate with node js and we can easy add our js logic in html tags use ejs tags. No need to add script tags. ### 8. works perfect with express.js **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** EJS is easy to use. It keeps the main (all) the features of HTML and CSS, and you can also inject data into the HTML template in the backend. You can add loops, control flows two these injected data. You can also add additional javascript scripts and libraries to the HTML template. You can also break your HTML template to several pieces, and reuse them later. **What do you dislike about EJS?** I am not aware that automated testing for EJS. Also, handle several js async functional can make the page really long and hard to read. I think react handles async functional calls much better. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** highly recommend to nodejs expressjs beginners who want to produce full-stack project with existing HTML knowledge. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used EJS as a template engine to generate web pages for javascript web applications in nodeJS. The benefits of EJS is to make my production faster because it is so convenient to lean and its reusability feature. ### 9. It is a very easy to use library which we can embed in our code files to minimize the code. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devesh T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** We can use the JavaScript code inside HTML document which is amazing! It cuts the development time by a huge percentage. **What do you dislike about EJS?** It's complexity sometimes, I had a bit of difficulty in beginning, but i got used to it. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** Always consider using EJS if you want good quality coding and also want value of time. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have to import the tags and classes in a JavaScript file externally, I can directly work with Javascript inside HTML, I didn't have any syntactical problem using EJS till now. ### 10. Ejs is Best Nodejs templating engine...Very easy handling of data . Just simple ejs tags.. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad F. | Nodejs Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** simple templating language that lets us generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. No religiousness about how to organize things. No reinvention of iteration and control-flow. It's just plain JavaScript. **What do you dislike about EJS?** EJS has no support for the block functionality which allows you to reuse pieces of templates across different files. Although it can be added to EJS through a third-party library. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I m creating hostel booking website with ejs ... I can render easily every page with data... Simply its awesome ### 11. Helps me a lot in generating HTML code with plain JavaScript. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** Ejs is best to template the node application I have used it to include repeatable parts of my application (partials) and pass data to the views. It is easy to set up as well. **What do you dislike about EJS?** When our program gets bigger it is difficult to maintain js logic and html code in same file. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** First learn and then code, u will automatically liking it. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used <%= %> to embed the return value of js expression in html and <% %> to evaluate the expression. Web development becomes more powerful when u are using ejs ### 12. A fresh alternative to object-oriented programming **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Glenn F. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** You can use plain JavaScript with it, and it's fairly easy to troubleshoot when you encounter errors. **What do you dislike about EJS?** The required syntax to use EJS can be quite confusing, but it becomes easier after some practice,. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** EJS helps me consolidate functions for different problems like plugging in elements from user input(i.e. shopping cart). ### 13. Found Embedded JavaScript templates are more reliable. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sufyan A. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** EJS uses all the JS jargon and logic. Which is most helpful for JS developers. **What do you dislike about EJS?** EJS is not more powerful like Jade and othes **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I prefer EJS because I think HTML is not too bad, plus it allows me to work with others ### 14. Its really easy templating language **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** pramod S. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** Its easy to understand syntax, structure and language **What do you dislike about EJS?** its debugging is lil hard , and rest of us quit good. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tempting problem ### 15. I like ejs is so easy to use and is better then jsx **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** EJS Is so good that you need to learn little things like where to put the tags and you can use java script **What do you dislike about EJS?** Everything is ok, My wish is EJS to be implement in react **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** To create some library **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use EJS to list the informations from database and other things ### 16. I don’t know anything about EJS earlier but when I started working, I was able to make full website **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** Rendering data and making use of jsfunctions **What do you dislike about EJS?** Nothing yet just it takes some time to load when there is huge amount of data **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can use HTML with nodejs and you don’t have to learn any other front end language ### 17. Use of EJS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** It gives me more flexibility to deal with js objects in html pages, mainly when I'm in my node.js code. **What do you dislike about EJS?** Sometimes I forget to handle the EJS closing tag. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** Give it a try! **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helpful to debug js objects or handle data. ### 18. Wonderful and really intuitive tool for rendering dynamic data on a HTML page. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** The intuitive syntax of EJS was the best feature in my opinion. **What do you dislike about EJS?** The similarity between the various syntax could be misleading... **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dynamically render data. In my case, live sensor data sent to my PC. ### 19. I use EJS in many of my JavaScript projects and it makes my job easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** Including html and JavaScript in a single page **What do you dislike about EJS?** happy to use it. Nothing to dislike at the moment **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** No need of using a framework for front end if you use ejs ### 20. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about EJS?** use whatever you want libraries and frameworks to build your webpage **What do you dislike about EJS?** it's hard to find formatter plug-in you have to do it manual **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dynamic content and server side rendering page ### 21. EJS is a powerful html contemplating library using javascript **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** abdul K. | Web Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2019 **What do you like best about EJS?** EJS can be used to make dynamic views. It is easy to convert already existing html files to EJS templates and someone can easily switch to using EJS if they already know html. **What do you dislike about EJS?** It can get very crowded and difficult to maintain as the code grows because the javascript logic and the html code are usually in the same file. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** EJS makes it easy to serve dynamic pages from the Node server depending on the client information. ### 22. Good with limited functionalities **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2019 **What do you like best about EJS?** I've used EJS over various projects for small server side creation of web pages. It's very easy and intuitive and very easy to change small details of pages. It is easily implemented through express and requires minimal setup. **What do you dislike about EJS?** The framework is not responsive, and it requires reloading entire pages to change the smallest detail. It does not allow complex syntax and blocks. In order to create more complex solutions it must be combined with other JS packages. **Recommendations to others considering EJS:** If you'd like something that will get you started right away and that is easy to user, consider EJS. **What problems is EJS solving and how is that benefiting you?** EJS helps solve fast implementation and fast rendering of HTML pages. 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