How can I correctly import a header and footer to HTML via Node.js without any template engine? I didn't find an answer on the internet. The only idea I have is reading the HTML file as text and replacing some tag (so creating something like my own template engine), but I don't know if this is the way to go.
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I have an .html file and a corresponding .js file (using Bootstrap) I need to deploy this to Heroku.
I'm really trying to avoid having to rework this entire project, I need more than just bootstrap styling. This project pulls data through an API, and populates based on the data pulled. Input is also needed from user to update the backend through API...
I've tried to find examples of how to accomplish just pulling in html/js into nodeJS/expressJS... but it seems most examples are just to use Bootstrap.css for styling, or there's no actual UI interaction coded in the example.
Any links or input will be greatly appreciated.
If you want to render a html file prepared in the server side. You need a view engine like ejs or pug. You can pass data into the html page. Another way of doing the same thing is a framework called NextJs or NuxtJs but you need to know React or Vue.
You can add bootstrap.css into the public folder and express.static will handle the problem. Or you can use CDN links too.
Then you can add the url of bootstrap.css into the html head.
https://expressjs.com/en/guide/using-template-engines.html
https://expressjs.com/en/starter/static-files.html
How can we fetch the QnA Pair from the URL which runs JS and then renders the DOM? The file is in markdown format and renders into HTML via running JS.
I came to know that the QnA Maker only searches the HTML contents. I want to have QnA pairs from a markdown file. For example:
This works in QnA: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md
While this not: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gulpjs/gulp/master/docs/FAQ.md
I am able to get the content as a second one from a page, but it's of no use as QnA doesn't support raw markdown. It supports in the form of HTML and the page I am requesting renders it after running JS.
I tried requesting with Postman too and body only contains Please enable JS and the same is happening with QnA.
How can I make a handler deliver HTML (using hamlet), whithout wrapping it inside defaultLayout?? They will have as root a div tag, not something inside a whole html tag. Such way should also consider internationalization.
Using Angular with Yesod works well because angular templating happens inside valid html that hamlet can generate.
Besides the current comment answer you might consider including a lot of templates using script tags inside a layout. I have done this before where there was a front page layout, an app layout, and an admin layout.
I am working on a POC on Node JS, and I learnt that a typical tech stack will look like - Jade (instead of HTML)/ NodeJS/ and some database. My question instead of Jade can we use HTML 5? This is to avoid learning one more language to complete the POC. Also I assume that I will be able to expose the Node JS methods as rest API instead of having PHP or Java layer.
More over if I use simple HTMl/JQuery - for UI and Node.js ( for restful service) it will be easy for one to migrate to other framework easily. Please share your experience.
This is more an opinionated question, so i would like to share my opinion.
My question instead of Jade can we use HTML 5?
Jade is not alternative of HTML5. Jade is a templating engine whereas HTML5 is not. So, both are different.
Getting back to your question, you can use HTML5 as well.
Role of Jade
Ex: Consider yourself in a scenario where after user login you need to display a profile page and in profile page You need to print 'Hello '.
Since is dynamic value, so it can't be hardcoded in HTML file. Therefore, you place a placeholder in HTML (since you have added placeholder and made your HTML file generic for all user, thats why such file is called template file instead of plain HTML file). Now you can fill the placeholder with dynamic value either on server side or on browser.
If you select to replace placeholder by their value on server side, you use some templating engines. Ex EJS, JADE etc. Templating engine are responsible for generating HTML from template
If you select to replace placeholder by their value on client side, then you can choose to opt Ajax calls and fill your placeholder using Jquery or Angular.js may be handy if your project is expected to be big enough.
if I use simple HTMl/JQuery - for UI and Node.js ( for restful service) it will be easy for one to migrate to other framework easily.
IMO, using HTML with jquery for UI is better, since it is simple and traditional and you will get more support on community forum. Also, you wont have to learn template, templating engines straightaway.
Is it possible to generate Server side includes with express.js?
I'm trying to reuse my header and footer markup on different pages so I can make header/footer changes in one place.
Try to use partials.
You have to choose between some template engines. The default template engine is jade, so for this you have to do the following: create a file views/header.jade and put your stuff in. in your action you can render the partial with partial('header');
See the expressjs docs for more.