node.js - Using HTML in Express instead of Jade

Question

How to I get rid of Jade while using Express with Node.JS? I want to just use plain html. In other articles I have seen that people recommended app.register() which is now deprecated in the latest version.

Answer 1

You can do it this way:

1. Install ejs:

   npm install ejs
   

2. Set your template engine in app.js as ejs

   // app.js
   app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
   app.set('view engine', 'html');
   

3. Now in your route file you can assign template variables

   // ./routes/index.js
   exports.index = function(req, res){
   res.render('index', { title: 'ejs' });};
   

4. Then you can create your html view in /views directory.