How to render jade file using nodejs, expressjs

Question

I created a project using express tool "express -s", By default it assign jade as default views templating system.

I have also create a file index.html and i converted it using html2jade tool, the problem is when i try to access index.jade file using this function :

exports.index = function(req, res){ console.log('welcome admin'); res.render('admin/app/index', { }); }

i got this error

SyntaxError: Unexpected token . at Object.Function (unknown source)

Please can someone explain what's wrong :)

Thanks in advance.

I recommend you use ejs, because you can use html: embeddedjs.com — alditis
– alditis, Commented Dec 1, 2012 at 8:02

Shiva K · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-03 17:32:22Z

That problem seems to be some formatting issue. you can use ejs instead. add the following to your app.js: // map .renderFile to ".html" files app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile); // make ".html" the default app.set('view engine', 'html'); //Then you can use below code to render html files and code in ejs: res.render('index.html);

Kwal · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-20 21:12:59Z

That error typically means that there's a problem with the Jade syntax in your template so I would double check that - the output to the terminal should contain more detailed information about where the parsing error occurred.

Also, if you don't already have it configured, I would recommend adding the following to turn on Connect's error handler:

app.configure('development', function(){ app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true })); });

Nithin · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-21 07:18:19Z

It could be that you're not sending any data to the index file. I would try something like this..

 exports.index = function(req, res){ console.log('welcome admin'); res.render('index', { output: 'Welcome Admin' }); }

And then in your app.js file you want to have

 app.get('/', routes.index);

and then in your index.jade file should have the tag for output key.so that whatever the value is given to output key is printed in the template.

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