Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm using Node.js and Express, and I
want to pass a local variable in to the layout on every page, is
there any way to do this? I'm using Jade as my templating
engine.  The reason I want this is because I want to display the
user's username on every page (using session), any way to do
this other than including it every time in the local object?
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down vote accepted  You can achieve this by defining a dynamic
view helper, as pointed out in the official Express guide:
session: function(req, res){     return req.session;  Then in
your views you can simply access the session variable, and for
example session.user to display the user.  share|improve this
answer Perfect, thanks! –  Varun Singh Jan 4 '12 at 11:46 add
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