Is ejs front-end or back-end?

Question

Newbie question: I'm learning the MEAN stack and is use EJS (embedded javascript) as the template engine. It's website says its a "cleans the HTML out of your JavaScript with client side templates" but it seems like to me that the <%= %> and <% %> are compiled on the backend and sent to the client afterwards. Am I not understanding something?

Answer 1

EJS work for both server side and client side.

Personally i use it with nodejs ( server side ), and for the client side my choice is http://mustache.github.io feel comfortable with it.