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How to I get rid of Jade while using Express with Node.JS? I want to just use plain html. In other articles I have seen that people recommended app.register() which is now deprecated in the latest version.
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You don't need to install any extra modules to render an HTML file in Express. Just install express and you are good to go.
You can continue to use Jade in your app, and it will work just fine. However if you want the latest updates to the template engine, you must replace Jade with Pug in your app. To render template files, set the following application setting properties, set in app.
EJS simply stands for Embedded Javascript. It is a simple templating language/engine that lets its user generate HTML with plain javascript. EJS is mostly useful whenever you have to output HTML with a lot of javascript.
set('view engine', 'html'); add your view templates as . html inside “views” folder. Restart you node server and start the app in the browser.
You can do it this way:
Install ejs:
npm install ejs Set your template engine in app.js as ejs
// app.js app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile); app.set('view engine', 'html'); Now in your route file you can assign template variables
// ./routes/index.js exports.index = function(req, res){ res.render('index', { title: 'ejs' });}; Then you can create your html view in /views directory.
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