Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

Defining a Template Engine

The first step in implementing a template engine is to define a default template engine for the Express application. You do this by setting the view engine setting on the express() application object. You also need to set the views setting to the location where your template files will be stored. For example, the following sets the ./views directory as the root for template documents and jade as the view engine:

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var app = express();app.set('views', './views');app.set('view engine', 'jade');

Then you need to register the template engines for the template extensions that you want them to handle by using the app.engine(ext, callback) method. The ext parameter is the file extension used for ...