How do I use HTML as the view engine in Express?

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Julio picture Julio · Jul 28, 2013 · Viewed 173.4k times · Source

I tried this simple change from the seed and created the corresponding .html files (e.g. index.html).

//app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.set('view engine', 'html');

and this file remained the same:

exports.index = function(req, res){
  res.render('index');
};

but while running I get

500 Error: Cannot find module 'html'

Is my only option to use 'ejs'? My intent was to use plain HTML in conjuction with AngularJS.

Answer

Dan Kohn picture Dan Kohn · Jul 28, 2013

The answers at the other link will work, but to serve out HTML, there is no need to use a view engine at all, unless you want to set up funky routing. Instead, just use the static middleware:

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

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