How do I use HTML as the view engine in Express

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I tried this simple change from the seed and created the corresponding  html files  e g  index html      app set  view engine    jade    app set  view engine    html      and this file remained the same   exports index   function req  res     res render  index         but while running I get  500 Error  Cannot find module  html   Is my only option to use  ejs   My intent was to use plain HTML in conjuction with AngularJS

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Render html template with the help of swig      require module swig         var swig   require  swig        view engine setup         app set  views   path join   dirname   views         app engine  html   swig renderFile       app set  view engine    html

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I recommend using https   www npmjs com package express-es6-template-engine - extremely lightwave and blazingly fast template engine  The name is a bit misleading as it can work without expressjs too   The basics required to integrate express-es6-template-engine in your app are pretty simple and quite straight forward to implement     x000D   x000D  const express   require  express    x000D    es6Renderer   require  express-es6-template-engine    x000D    app   express    x000D     x000D  app engine  html   es6Renderer   x000D  app set  views    views    x000D  app set  view engine    html    x000D    x000D  app get      function req  res    x000D    res render  index    locals   title   Welcome       x000D      x000D    x000D  app listen 3000   x000D   x000D   x000D   Here is the content of the index html file locate inside your  views  directory      lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt body gt       lt h1 gt   title  lt  h1 gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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Comment out the middleware for html i e     app set  view engine    html      Instead use   app get      req res   gt       res sendFile  index html

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try this for your server config  app configure function         app use express static   dirname     public                set the static files location     app use express logger  dev                                log every request to the console     app use express bodyParser                                 pull information from html in POST     app use express methodOverride                             simulate DELETE and PUT     app use express favicon   dirname     public img favicon ico           then your callback functions to routes will look like   function req  res        res sendfile    public index html

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To make the render engine accept html instead of jade you can follow the following steps   Install consolidate and swig to your directory    npm install consolidate  npm install swig  add following lines to your app js file  var cons   require  consolidate        view engine setup app engine  html   cons swig  app set  views   path join   dirname   views     app set  view engine    html     add your view templates as  html inside    views    folder  Restart you node server and start the app in the browser    This should work

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html is not a view engine   but ejs offers the possibility to write html code within it

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HTML files can be rendered using ejs engine   app set  view engine    ejs      And make sure your files under   views  are named with   ejs    For example  index ejs

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Install ejs template  npm install ejs --save  Refer ejs in app js  app set  views   path join   dirname   views      app set  view engine    ejs      Create a ejs template in views like views indes ejs  amp  use ejs tempalte in router  router get      function req  res  next        res render  index     title   Express

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In your apps js just add     view engine setup app set  views   path join   dirname   views     app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile   app set  view engine    html      Now you can use ejs view engine while keeping your view files as  html  source  http   www makebetterthings com node-js how-to-use-html-with-express-node-js   You need to install this two packages    npm install ejs --save   npm install path --save    And then import needed packages    var path   require  path       This way you can save your views as  html instead of  ejs   Pretty helpful while working with IDEs that support html but dont recognize ejs

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No view engine is necessary  if you want to use angular with simple plain html file  Here s how to do it  In your route js file   router get       req  res    gt       res sendFile  index html          root   yourPathToIndexDirectory

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The answers at the other link will work  but to serve out HTML  there is no need to use a view engine at all  unless you want to set up funky routing  Instead  just use the static middleware   app use express static   dirname     public

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to server html pages through routing  I have done this   var hbs   require  express-hbs    app engine  hbs   hbs express4     partialsDir    dirname     views partials       app set  views     dirname     views    app set  view engine    hbs      and renamed my  html files to  hbs files - handlebars support plain html

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Answer is very Simple  You Must use app engine  html   to render   html Pages  try this It must Solve the Problem   app set  views   path join   dirname   views          Set EJS View Engine   app set  view engine   ejs         Set HTML engine   app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile     the  html file Will work

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To make the render engine accept html instead of jade you can follow the following steps    Install consolidate and swig to your directory    npm install consolidate  npm install swig  add following lines to your app js file  var cons   require  consolidate        view engine setup app engine  html   cons swig  app set  views   path join   dirname   views     app set  view engine    html     add your view templates as  html inside    views    folder  Restart you node server and start the app in the browser    Though this will render html without any issue  I would recommend you to use JADE by learning it  Jade is an amazing template engine and learning this will help you achieve better design  amp  scalability

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Html files do not need to be rendered  what a render engine does is turn a file that is not an Html file into an Html file  to send an Html file  just do  res sendFile  quot index html quot     you might need to use   dirname  quot  index html quot  so express will know the exact path

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Try out this simple solution  it worked for me  app get      function req  res       res render  index html

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