I'm currently using Sails for backend, which es with an ejs view engine and a templating system which is rather neat. However, setting up Angular on the front end of things will get in the way of these functions.
For instance, I can no longer use templates, because if I have say <html ng-app="myApp"> inside layout.ejs Angular will never initialize.
Same thing should I include any ejs templates.
So what I have done now is created a index.html file inside my assets folder, turned off the Sails routes and layouts, and am purely working with Angular. This will do fine for my current project (except I can't make things as tidy as I'm used to, the boilerplate html need to sit there, etc.) but will it be a problem in other projects, I wonder?
In other words, what am I missing out on by not using ejs? How will I ever be able to get things from my Sails controllers into my views? Or won't I need to?
I'm currently using Sails for backend, which es with an ejs view engine and a templating system which is rather neat. However, setting up Angular on the front end of things will get in the way of these functions.
For instance, I can no longer use templates, because if I have say <html ng-app="myApp"> inside layout.ejs Angular will never initialize.
Same thing should I include any ejs templates.
So what I have done now is created a index.html file inside my assets folder, turned off the Sails routes and layouts, and am purely working with Angular. This will do fine for my current project (except I can't make things as tidy as I'm used to, the boilerplate html need to sit there, etc.) but will it be a problem in other projects, I wonder?
In other words, what am I missing out on by not using ejs? How will I ever be able to get things from my Sails controllers into my views? Or won't I need to?
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Reset to default 4First this question is WIDE open to interpretation based on all sorts of variables.
If your using your APP simply as JSON delivering API, then in reality you don't need to use the template engine. So the basic premise of your question is valid.
However, their are still plenty of reaons to use the template engine.
For instance, you can still use EJS to setup your default layout and index page for your angular site.
For instance, I can no longer use templates, because if I have say inside layout.ejs Angular will never initialize.
This statement is pletely wrong. I use server render templatse for my index page on a SPA in order to use my app version to point to updated assets and template files. That way old template files will not be cached when I update my app. Depending on the app the index page may be the only one to use the template engine as everything else will use static templates. Others I have the server render my templates using the template engine as well (for example: if I want to restrict certain aspects of my templates based on a user role.)
There are other reasons as well. You might try the Google Groups for sails as this is more of an open ended question.
https://groups.google./forum/#!forum/sailsjs
If you use Angular for frontend and SailsJs for the backend the best practice is to have two distinct applications which means you don't have use sails to render the views (No EJS mandatory ). AFAIK SailsJS just need to be used as a REST API while Angular needs to render your views ( you could use http.post get put and delete to unicate with your api).
Best Regards.
As sails.js is purely backend and Angular.js is purely frontend, they can work together nicely.
All you need to do is place your angular files and logic in
myapp/assets
folder. Assets folder is by default acessible on sails server url.
You can access it as http://localhost:1337/assets/file_name.
As for the ejs, if you are using any javascript framework like angular.js then it is not a requirement as all JSON api will be made in sails framework and angular will get data in JSON format.