Thanks to the amazing creator AJ for providing such outstanding templates for free. We will be converting a very useful and popular responsive HTML template called Eventually by HTML5UP. It is going to look something like below: The website is called “Eventually podcast”. Table of contents #įor this guide, we are building a simple one-pager landing page for an imaginary podcast about headphones. In this Node.js Express tutorial, we will build a mock landing page that can collect the email addresses of people interested to be notified of the launch of our imaginary podcast about headphones. “Developing template engines for Express”.ĭocumentation translations provided by StrongLoop/IBM:įrench, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese.Ĭommunity translation available for: Slovak, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Turkish and Thai.Express Js is one of the most popular Node.js frameworks. To learn more about how template engines work in Express, see:

The view is still re-rendered with every request even when the cache is on. Note: The view engine cache does not cache the contents of the template’s output, only the underlying template itself. When you make a request to the home page, the index.pug file will be rendered as HTML. You must specify the extension of the view file. Then create a route to render the index.pug file. app.set('view engine', 'pug')Ĭreate a Pug template file named index.pug in the views directory, with the following content: html Library follows this convention by mapping all of the popular Node.js template engines, and therefore works seamlessly within Express.Īfter the view engine is set, you don’t have to specify the engine or load the template engine module in your app Įxpress loads the module internally, as shown below (for the above example). Some template engines do not follow this convention. Which is called by the res.render() function to render the template code. Express-compliant template engines such as Jade and Pug export a function named _express(filePath, options, callback),

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