Month: September 2013

How to use HTML with Express (Node.js)

There is no direct way of using HTML under Jade, which comes with Express by default, But if you want to use more HTML-style templates, you could use els instead of Jade. Follow these steps to use ejs instead of Jade –

1) Install ejs – 

npm install ejs

2) Set your template engine in app.js as ejs


// app.js
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
app.set('view engine', 'html');

3) Now in your route file you can assign template variables – 

// ./routes/index.js
exports.index = function(req, res){
  res.render('index', { title: 'ejs' });
};

4) Then you can create your html view in /views directory.

// ./views/index.html
<h1>Welcome to <%= title %>!</h1>