Let's say I have 2 files, create.js.eex and post.html.eex and I want to render the contents of the post.html.eex template inside the create.js.eex template. Something like this:
$("#something").append("<%= safe_to_string render "post.html", post: @post %>");
The example above doesn't work because I need to escape quotes and other things in the string that gets returned and I can't find a way to do it
You can use render_to_string
Phoenix.View.render_to_string(MyApp.PageView, "index.html", foo: "bar")
Be aware that this can expose you to XSS.
Use escape_javascript:
$("#something").append("<%= escape_javascript render("post.html", post: @post) %>");
You can render_to_string and escape that, but there doesn't seem to be much need -- and since it returns a string, it will HTML-escape all the markup.
Actually, this exact example is in the docs:
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_html/Phoenix.HTML.html#escape_javascript/1
