tj
Are EJS templates auto-compiled?
One thing that's not clear to me from the documentation. Do you have to run the compile method to benefit from compiling / caching in Node, or is template compilation something that happens automatically? (Automatic would be a preference, of course.)
That is: the list of options doesn't make it clear which are the default settings.
From my experience they are not cached without manual compilation. We noticed a significant performance boost when we compiled the view once at startup instead of reading the view from disc every request.
.compile() is not cached automatically. Ever. If you are using .render*() it is automatically cached when the cache option is enabled.
