Ok, I'll try to help you using one my examples. First of all, you need to know I am using express for my application directory structure and for creating files like app.js in an automatically way. My login.html looks like:
...
<div class="form">
<h2>Login information</h2>
<form action="/login" method = "post">
<input type="text" placeholder="E-Mail" name="email" required/>
<input type="password" placeholder="Password" name="password" required/>
<button>Login</button>
</form>
The important thing here is action="/login". This is the path I use in my index.js (for navigating between the views) which look like this:
app.post('/login', passport.authenticate('login', {
successRedirect : '/home',
failureRedirect : '/login',
failureFlash : true
}));
app.get('/home', function(request, response) {
response.render('pages/home');
});
This allows me to redirect to another page after a succesful login. There is a helpful tutorial you could check out for redirecting between pages:
http://cwbuecheler.com/web/tutorials/2014/restful-web-app-node-express-mongodb/
To read a statement like <%= user.attributes.name %> let's have a look at a simple profile.html which has the following structure:
<div id = "profile">
<h3>Profilinformationen</h3>
<form>
<fieldset>
<label id = "usernameLabel">Username:</label>
<input type = "text" id="usernameText" value = "<%= user.user.username %>" />
<br>
</fieldset>
</form>
To get the the attributes of the user variable, you have to initialize a user variable in your routing.js (called index.js in my case). This looks like
app.get('/profile', auth, function(request, response) {
response.render('pages/profile', {
user : request.user
});
});
I am using mongoose for my object model:
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var bcrypt = require('bcrypt-nodejs');
var role = require('./role');
var userSchema = mongoose.Schema({
user : {
username : String,
email : String,
password : String
}
});
Ask me anytime for further questions... Best regards, Nazar