Nodejs: Error: Cannot find module 'html'

Question

im using nodejs and im trying to serve only html files (no jade, ejs ... engines).

heres my entry point (index.js) code:

var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

var app = express();

app.set('port', (process.env.PORT || 5000));
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
  extended: true
}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

app.get('*', function(req, res){
    res.render('index.html');
});

app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
});

This is doing just fine when i hit the url "localhost:5000/", but when i try something like "localhost:5000/whatever" i got the following message: Error: Cannot find module 'html'

im new to nodejs, but i want all routes to render the index.html file. How can i do that ???

Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to specify your view folder and parse the engine to HTML.

var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

var app = express();

app.set('port', (process.env.PORT || 5000));
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.set('views', __dirname + '/public/views');
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
app.set('view engine', 'html');

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
  extended: true
}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());



app.get('*', function(req, res){
    res.render('index.html');
});

app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
});