I've been exploring Node.js and recently dove into Express to create a basic app. My goal was to use Handlebars as the view templating engine, but I'm encountering an issue - it can't locate the "index.html" view.
The index.html file is in the same directory as my app.js, so I assumed the code below would work fine...
After searching for examples outside of jade, it seems to be quite rare... Has anyone successfully used this combination before?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
var express = require('express')
, app = express.createServer();
app.configure(function(){
app.set('view engine', 'handlebars');
app.set("view options", { layout: false })
});
app.get('/', function(req, res){
var data = {
name: "Ford Prefect",
home: "a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse"
}
res.render('index.html', data);
});
app.listen(3000);
Update:
I forgot to include:
app.set('views', __dirname + '/');
app.register('.html', require('handlebars'));
in my config... Registering '.html' is crucial as it associates handlebars with .html files...
I hope this information benefits someone else facing the same issue...
Since I'm new to SO, I can't answer my own question for 7 hours. I'll post the complete working example tomorrow for anyone who needs it...