I have this route in my app.js file that starts the server

app.get('/view/:item_id', function(req,res){

    var A = 5;

    res.render('view_item');

and I have this in my view_item.html:

<p>{{A}}</p>

I want it to display the variable value - 5. If I were using a template engine such as jade it would be easy. I could change that third line of my server code to res.render({A:A},'view_item');

But I am using html as my template engine. My research so far has told me that using a template engine with angular is usually a bad idea, and there is always a way to do it using angular's built in template system. So how do I do this? Do I somehow pass it to the $scope and include like

<script>

    $scope.A = {{A}};

</script>

I haven't seen this done anywhere so I don't think its the way to go.