Error Cannot find module html

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I have not used Node js for a long time and never used express  When I started my application  it just returned    Error  Cannot find module  html    at Function Module  resolveFilename  module js 338 15    at Function Module  load  module js 280 25    at Module require  module js 364 17    at require  module js 380 17    at new View  C  Users fr node modules express lib view js 42 49    at Function app render  C  Users fr node modules express lib application js 483 12    at ServerResponse res render  C  Users fr node modules express lib response js 755 7    at allClients  C  Users fr node modules apps chat js 13 7    at callbacks  C  Users fr node modules express lib router index js 161 37    at param  C  Users fr node modules express lib router index js 135 11    The error occured when I launched test html  Here s the code    var io   require  socket io    var express   require  express     var app   express    http   require  http    server   http createServer app   socket   require  socket io   listen server    app configure function        app use express static   dirname        app get      function req  res  next       res render    test html         server listen 8333     My path    node modules      express      socket io      apps          chat js         test html   Why    EDIT    This is my new app configure    app configure function        app use express static path join   dirname   public            But it returns     path is not defined

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This is what i did for rendering html files. And it solved the errors. Install consolidate and mustache by executing the below command in your project folder.

$ sudo npm install consolidate mustache --save

And make the following changes to your app.js file

var engine = require('consolidate');

app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.engine('html', engine.mustache);
app.set('view engine', 'html');

And now html pages will be rendered properly.

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I am assuming that test html is a static file To render static files use the static middleware like so   app use express static path join   dirname   public        This tells express to look for static files in the public directory of the application   Once you have specified this simply point your browser to the location of the file and it should display   If however you want to render the views then you have to use the appropriate renderer for it The list of renderes is defined in consolidate Once you have decided which library to use just install it I use mustache so here is a snippet of my config file  var engines   require  consolidate     app set  views     dirname     views    app engine  html   engines mustache   app set  view engine    html      What this does is tell express to    look for files to render in views directory Render the files using mustache The extension of the file is  html you can use  mustache too

User · Answer

Simple way is to use the EJS template engine for serving  html files  Put this line right next to your view engine setup   app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile

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Install ejs if it is not  npm install ejs  Then after just paste below two lines in your main file   like app js  main js  app set  view engine    html     app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile

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I think you might need to declare a view engine   If you want to use a view template engine   app set  view engine    ejs     or   app set  view engine    jade     But to render plain-html  see this post  Render basic HTML view

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Use res sendFile   instead of res render    What your trying to do is send a whole file  This worked for me

[javascript] Error: Cannot find module html

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