I am trying to use Embedded Javascript renderer for node. I installed it using npm, as given here: https://github.com/visionmedia/ejs
And I have the following code, but it does not seem to work:
var connect = require('connect'), ejs = require('ejs'); var server = connect.createServer( connect.bodyDecoder(), connect.methodOverride(), connect.staticProvider(__dirname + '/public'), function(req,res) { ejs.render('hi'); } ); server.listen(9000); Any help greatly appreciated.
try this: (assuming you have the express and ejs modules installed)
var express = require('express'); var app = express.createServer(); app.configure(function() { app.use(express.bodyParser()); app.use(express.static('./static/')); app.use(app.router); }); app.set('view engine', 'ejs'); app.set('view options', { layout: false }); app.get('/', function(req, res) { res.render('index', { message : 'De groeten' }); }); app.listen(3000); and put a view in './views'. call it 'index.ejs' and fill it with some html:
<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p> <%= message %> </p> </body> </html> works for me!
You need to send something to the response. From the connect hello-world
var connect = require('../../lib/connect'); var server = connect.createServer(function(req, res){ var body = 'Hello World'; res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' , 'Content-Length': body.length }); res.end(body); }); server.listen(3000); console.log('Connect server listening on port 3000'); So for your app you'll want to replace:
function(req,res) { ejs.render('hi'); } With something like:
function(req,res) { res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' }); res.end(ejs.render('hi')); } Does that work?
Set your view engine to use ejs.
app.set("view engine", "ejs"); Now set up the root route so that it will load something when you access your server from a browser, see below.
var app = express(); // ROOT ROUTE app.get("/", function(req, res) { res.render("landingpage"); // use to render an ejs template page res.send("hello world"); // to render an empty page with the hello world message }); 