Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Adding a view layer to Koa

Let's copy the application we created in the Creating a Koa web app recipe, and call it koa-views.

We'll install the ejs and koa-views modules:

$ cp -fr creating-a-koa-web-app/app koa-views
$ cd koa-views
$ npm install --save koa-views ejs  

We'll also copy the views folder from the main recipe to the koa-views/views:

$ cp -fr ../express-views/views views

Next we'll require the koa-views module among the other dependencies at the top of index.js:

const {join} = require('path') 
const Koa = require('koa') 
const serve = require('koa-static') 
const views = require('koa-views') 
const router = require('koa-router')() 
const index = require('./routes/index') 

Next just beneath where we assign the port constant in index.js ...