how to include an ejs file in another ejs file?

Question

I can't include footer.ejs inside home.ejs

app.js:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.set("view engine", "ejs")

app.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.render('home')
});

view/home.ejs:

<h1>Welcome</h1>

<% include partials/footer.ejs %>

view/partials/footer.ejs

<p>End</p>

this is the error I get when i try to reach home:

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier in /home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/views/home.ejs while compiling ejs

If the above error is not helpful, you may want to try EJS-Lint: https://github.com/RyanZim/EJS-Lint Or, if you meant to create an async function, pass async: true as an option. at new Function () at Template.compile (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js:626:12) at Object.compile (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js:366:16) at handleCache (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js:215:18) at tryHandleCache (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js:254:16) at View.exports.renderFile [as engine] (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js:459:10) at View.render (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/express/lib/view.js:135:8) at tryRender (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:640:10) at Function.render (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:592:3) at ServerResponse.render (/home/ubuntu/Documents/moreExpress/EJSdemo/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:1012:7)