Render basic HTML view

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I have a basic node js app that I am trying to get off the ground using Express framework   I have a views folder where I have an index html file   But I receive the following error when loading the web browser      Error  Cannot find module  html    Below is my code     var express   require  express    var app   express createServer     app use express staticProvider   dirname     public      app get      function req  res        res render  index html         app listen 8080   127 0 0 1     What am I missing here

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I usually use this  app configure function         app use express static   dirname     web           Just be careful because that ll share anything in the  web directory   I hope it helps

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I wanted to allow requests to     to be handled by an Express route where previously they had been handled by the statics middleware  This would allow me to render the regular version of index html or a version that loaded concatenated   minified JS and CSS  depending on application settings  Inspired by Andrew Homeyer s answer  I decided to drag my HTML files - unmodified - into a views folder  configure Express like so     app engine  html   swig renderFile      app set  view engine    html       app set  views     dirname     views        And created a route handler like so    app route               get function req  res               if config useConcatendatedFiles                   return res render  index-dist                              res render  index                         This worked out pretty well

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If you don t have to use the views directory  Simply move html files to the public directory below   and then  add this line into app configure instead of   views     server use express static   dirname     public

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It is very sad that it is about 2020 still express hasn t added a way to render an HTML page without using sendFile method of the response object  Using sendFile is not a problem but passing argument to it in the form of path join   dirname   relative path to file   doesn t feel right  Why should a user join   dirname to the file path  It should be done by default  Why can t the root of the server be by defalut the project directory  Also  installing a templating dependency just to render a static HTML file is again not correct  I don t know the correct way to tackle the issue  but if I had to serve a static HTML  then I would do something like   const PORT   8154   const express   require  express    const app   express     app use express static  views      app listen PORT       gt        console log  Server is listening at port http   localhost   PORT           The above example assumes that the project structure has a views directory and the static HTML files are inside it  For example  let s say  the views directory has two HTML files named index html and about html  then to access them  we can visit  localhost 8153 index html or just localhost 8153  to load the index html page and localhost 8153 about html to load the about html  We can use a similar approach to serve a react angular app by storing the artifacts in the views directory or just using the default dist  lt project-name gt  directory and configure it in the server js as follows   app use express static  dist  lt project-name gt

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You can have jade include a plain HTML page   in views index jade  include plain html   in views plain html   lt  DOCTYPE html gt        and app js can still just render jade   res render index

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For plain html you don t require any npm package or middleware  just use this   app get      function req  res        res sendFile  index html

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I didn t want to depend on ejs for simply delivering an HTML file  so I simply wrote the tiny renderer myself   const Promise   require   bluebird     const fs        Promise promisifyAll  require   fs        app set   view engine    html     app engine    html     filename  request  done     gt        fs readFileAsync  filename   utf-8             then  html   gt  done  null  html              catch  done

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Add the following Lines to your code   Replace  jade  with  ejs   amp   X Y Z  version  with     in package json file     dependencies         ejs            Then in your app js File Add following Code    app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile    app set  view engine    html    And Remember Keep All  HTML files in views Folder   Cheers

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In server js  please include  var express   require  express    var app       express    var path      require  path      app get     function req res     res sendFile path join   dirname   index html           dirname   It will resolve to your project folder

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Express 4 x  res sendFile path    options     fn    Send  html files  no template engine             Node modules const path   require  path            Set path to views directory app set  views   path join   dirname   views           App routes     app get       req  res    gt      res sendFile  index html     root  app get  views                   -- node modules     -- views       --index html  -- app js

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If you are trying to serve an HTML file which ALREADY has all it s content inside it  then it does not need to be  rendered   it just needs to be  served   Rendering is when you have the server update or inject content before the page is sent to the browser  and it requires additional dependencies like ejs  as the other answers show   If you simply want to direct the browser to a file based on their request  you should use res sendFile   like this   const express   require  express    const app   express    var port   process env PORT    3000    Whichever port you want to run on app use express static    folder with html       This ensures local references to cs and js files work  app get       req  res    gt      res sendFile   dirname     folder with html index html         app listen port       gt  console log  lifted app  listening on port     port      This way you don t need additional dependencies besides express  If you just want to have the server send your already created html files  the above is a very lightweight way to do so

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I was trying to set up an angular app with an express RESTful API and landed on this page multiple times though it wasn t helpful  Here s what I found that worked   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 in the callback for your api routes look like  res jsonp users    Your client side framework can handle routing  Express is for serving the API   My home route looks like this   app get       function req  res        res sendfile    public index html       load the single view file  angular will handle the page changes on the front-end

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With Express 4 0 0  the only thing you have to do is comment out 2 lines in app js      app set  views   path join   dirname   views     app set  view engine    jade         or whatever the templating engine is    And then drop your static file into the  public directory  Example   public index html

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To render Html page in node try the following   app set  views     dirname     views     app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile      You need to install ejs module through npm like      npm install ejs --save

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From the Express js Guide  View Rendering     View filenames take the form Express ENGINE  where ENGINE is the name of the module that will be required  For example the view layout ejs will tell the view system to require  ejs    the module being loaded must export the method exports render str  options  to comply with Express  however app register   can be used to map engines to file extensions  so that for example foo html can be rendered by jade    So either you create your own simple renderer or you just use jade    app register   html   require  jade       More about app register      Note that in Express 3  this method is renamed app engine

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I added below 2 line and it work for me      app set  view engine    html        app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile

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folder structure      -- index html  -- node modules         --       -- server js   server js  var express   require  express    var app   express     app use express static          app get      function req  res        res render  index html         app listen 8882   127 0 0 1     index html   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt body gt    lt div gt  hello world  lt  div gt    lt  body gt   lt  html gt    output    hello world

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1  The best way is to set static folder  In your main file  app js   server js          app use express static path join   dirname   public        public css form html public css style css  Then you got static file from  public  folder   http   YOUR DOMAIN form html http   YOUR DOMAIN css style css     2   You can create your file cache  Use method fs readFileSync  var cache       cache  index html     fs readFileSync    dirname     public form html     app get      function req  res           res setHeader  Content-Type    text html        res send  cache  index html

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If you re using express  3 0 0 change the line below from your example   app use express staticProvider   dirname     public       to something like this   app set  view options    layout  false    app use express static   dirname     public       I made it as described on express api page and it works like charm  With that setup you don t have to write additional code so it becomes easy enough to use for your micro production or testing   Full code listed below   var express   require  express    var app   express createServer     app set  view options    layout  false    app use express static   dirname     public      app get      function req  res        res render  index html         app listen 8080   127 0 0 1

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For my project I have created this structure   index js css      reset css html      index html   This code serves index html for   requests  and reset css for  css reset css requests  Simple enough  and the best part is that it automatically adds cache headers   var express   require  express        server   express     server configure function          server use   css   express static   dirname     css         server use express static   dirname     html          server listen 1337

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Many of these answers are out of date   Using express 3 0 0 and 3 1 0  the following works   app set  views     dirname     views    app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile     See the comments below for alternative syntax and caveats for express 3 4    app set  view engine    ejs      Then you can do something like   app get   about   function  req  res        res render  about html          This assumes you have your views in the views subfolder  and that you have installed the ejs node module  If not  run the following on a Node console   npm install ejs --save

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res sendFile   dirname     public login html

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if you are using express framework to node js   install npm ejs   then add config file   app set  port   process env PORT    3000   app set  views     dirname     views    app set  view engine    ejs    app set  view engine    jade    app use express favicon     app use express logger  dev     app use express bodyParser     app use express methodOverride     app use app router       render the page from exports module form js have the html file in the views dir    with extension of ejs file name as form html ejs  then create the form js  res render  form html ejs

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index js   var express   require  express    var app   express    app use express static   dirname     public       app get      function req  res        res render  index html          app listen 3400       gt        console log  Server is running at port 3400         Put your index html file in public folder   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt head gt       lt title gt Render index html file lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt       lt h1 gt  I am from public index html  lt  h1 gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    Now run the following code in your terminal        node index js

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try this  it works for me   app configure function                   disable layout   app set  view options    layout  false          make a custom html template   app register   html         compile  function str  options         return function locals           return str                                  app get      function req  res     res render  index html

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Try res sendFile   function in Express routes   var express   require  express    var app       express    var path      require  path      app get     function req res     res sendFile path join   dirname   index html           dirname   It will resolve to your project folder       app get   about  function req res     res sendFile path join   dirname   about html          app get   sitemap  function req res     res sendFile path join   dirname   sitemap html          app listen 3000    console log  Running at Port 3000      Read here   http   codeforgeek com 2015 01 render-html-file-expressjs

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If you want to render HTML file you can use sendFile   method  without using any template engine const express    require  quot express quot   const path   require  quot path quot   const app   express   app get  quot   quot   req res   gt       res sendFile   path join   dirname   htmlfiles  index html         app listen 8000     gt       console log  quot server is running at Port 8000 quot        I have an HTML file inside htmlfile so I used path module to render index html  path is default module in node  if your file is present in root folder just used res sendFile path join   dirname   htmlfiles  index html     inside app get   it will work

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You could also read the HTML file and send it   app get       req  res    gt        fs readFile   dirname     public index html    utf8    err  text    gt            res send text

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Here is a full file demo of express server   https   gist github com xgqfrms-GitHub 7697d5975bdffe8d474ac19ef906e906  hope it will help for you    x000D   x000D     simple express server for HTML pages  x000D     ES6 style x000D   x000D  const express   require  express    x000D  const fs   require  fs    x000D  const hostname    127 0 0 1   x000D  const port   3000  x000D  const app   express    x000D   x000D  let cache         Array is OK  x000D  cache 0    fs readFileSync    dirname     index html    x000D  cache 1    fs readFileSync    dirname     views testview html    x000D   x000D  app get       req  res    gt    x000D      res setHeader  Content-Type    text html    x000D      res send  cache 0     x000D      x000D   x000D  app get   test    req  res    gt    x000D      res setHeader  Content-Type    text html    x000D      res send  cache 1     x000D      x000D   x000D  app listen port       gt    x000D      console log   x000D          Server is running at http     hostname    port    x000D          Server hostname   hostname  is listening on port   port   x000D          x000D      x000D   x000D   x000D

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app get      function  req  res    res sendfile   dirname     public index html

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I also faced the same issue in express 3 X and node 0 6 16  The above given solution will not work for latest version express 3 x  They removed the app register method and added app engine method  If you tried the above solution you may end up with the following error   node js 201         throw e     process nextTick error  or  error  event on first tick                 TypeError  Object function app req  res   app handle req  res     has no method  register      at Function  lt anonymous gt    home user1 ArunKumar firstExpress app js 37 5      at Function configure   home user1 ArunKumar firstExpress node modules express lib application js 399 61      at Object  lt anonymous gt    home user1 ArunKumar firstExpress app js 22 5      at Module  compile  module js 441 26      at Object  js  module js 459 10      at Module load  module js 348 31      at Function  load  module js 308 12      at Array 0  module js 479 10      at EventEmitter  tickCallback  node js 192 40    To get rid of the error message  Add the following line to your app configure function  app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile     Note  you have to install ejs template engine  npm install -g ejs   Example    app configure function                   disable layout   app set  view options    layout  false       app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile          app get      function req  res     res render  index html          Note  The simplest solution is to use ejs template as view engine  There you can write raw HTML in   ejs view files

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