This must have cleared your view about the template engine. In simple words, if I say, then, at runtime a template engine replaces the variables in the file with the actual values and then send the resultant HTML to the client i.e., to the browser. If you found it a little difficult to answer, then don’t worry, I am going to let you know what it is? A template engine is nothing but a medium which allows to add the data to a view and generate the HTML dynamically. Now before going any further, you must answer me a very relevant question at this point – What is a template engine?

This makes the NodeJS an extra fabulous technology to handle all the logic of any project. HTML pages can be easily rendered from the backend only without using any front-end framework. Important role of Pug in NodeJS:Īs NodeJS is an awesome server-side platform, pug simply helps it add more functionalities to it alongside the usage of Express.js. In this blog I am going to take you through the world of PUG and how it helps in making NodeJS applications render pages without any front-end framework. It works as a middleman between what has been inputted and what is needed to be produced (mostly the HTML pages). Basically, PUG is a very high-performance server-side template engine for NodeJS applications. Pug, a very sweet and cute name to a technology that helps in producing the HTML pages.

Pug template engine