I have little confusion. Using Nodejs
folder structure image is attached.
If I put index.html at the root of Client folder than everything is working fine.
On the other hand if I move index.html in the views folder like in the image than js files are not loading but index.html is loading.
Nodejs - server.js
app.configure(function () {
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
app.use(express.favicon());
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.logger('dev')); //tiny, short, default
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(express.cookieSession({secret: "sdfr"}));
//app.set('views', __dirname + '/client/views/');
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/client/views'));
});
app.js
app.config(['$routeProvider', function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.when('/',
{
templateUrl: 'partials/home.html',
controller: 'HomeCtrl'
});
$routeProvider.when('/login',
{
templateUrl: 'partials/login.html',
controller: 'LoginCtrl'
});
$routeProvider.when('/register',
{
templateUrl: 'partials/register.html',
controller: 'RegisterCtrl'
});
$routeProvider.when('/404',
{
templateUrl: 'partials/404.html'
});
$routeProvider.otherwise({redirectTo: '/404'});
//$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
}])
index.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html ng-app="contactManager">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Angular Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
Home<br/>
Login<br/>
Register<br/>
Private<br/>
Admin<br/>
404<br/>
<div>
<div ng-view></div>
</div>
<script src="../lib/vendor/angularjs/1.1.5/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="../js/app.js"></script>
<script src="../js/controllers.js"></script>
</body>
Currently you are NOT including the JS in express.static. The included JS sources at ../js from your index.html file go nowhere because client/views is the only directory being served by express.static.
You should just include the whole client in your static, otherwise you'll have to do include each directory into your static provider.
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/client/views')); means you are serving anything from /client/views but nothing OUTSIDE of that directory.
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/client/js')); would allow you to serve the JS folder, but it would be accessed at root. You can use TWO static providers but the first one will win in the event of a conflict. You could also do app.use(express.static('/js', __dirname + '/client/js')); which would all you to access client/js at yoursite.com/js but that seems strange to me.
Read up on using express.static here: http://expressjs.com/api.html#middleware
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Even though i have created static public folder in app.js
when i navigate to "http://localhost:3000/calenders/add" and i don't get any styles which is in public folder. because express has added "calenders/add/" to the public folder URL.
So it looks like "http://localhost:3000/calenders/add/content_inside_public".
But the correct URL should be "http://localhost:3000/content_inside_public"
Navigate to app index works fine and load all the styles.
Of course i can set static path in app.js like this
app.use('/calenders/add',express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
but it's not practical if i have many routes in my app.
I believe this is happening because i have a separated folder called partials inside the view directory to store headers,footers and navigation bar, so that i can include them any where in the app easily without writing same html code again and again.
This is how i included them in calender/add.ejs
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<% include ../partials/head.ejs %>
<body>
<!-- Side Navbar -->
<% include ../partials/side_nav.ejs %>
<div class="page">
<!-- navbar-->
<% include ../partials/header.ejs %>
<% include ../partials/footer.ejs %>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This is how i have access the folders and style-sheets inside the public directory in headers.ejs and footers.ejs
<script src="vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/popper.js/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/grasp_mobile_progress_circle-1.0.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/jquery.cookie/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/chart.js/Chart.min.js"></script>
This is my project structure.
/public
/css
/js
/vendor
.......
/routes
calendars.js
control_panel.js
index.js
/views
/calendars
add.ejs
/control_panel
index.ejs
calendars.ejs
/partials
header.ejs
footer.ejs
......
index.ejs
Here is the app.js
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use('/', index);
app.use('/users', users);
app.use('/control_panel', control_panel);
app.use('/calenders', calenders);
Calendars.js
router.get('/add', function(req, res, next) {
res.render('calenders/add', { title: 'Express' });
});
control_panel.js
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
res.render('control_panel/index', { title: 'Express' });
});
This has nothing to do with express,
this is because in /calenders/add, src of <script src="vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script> will resolve to http://localhost:3000/calenders/add/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js,
because vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js is a relative path.
what you need is to change the url to this:
<script src="/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/vendor/popper.js/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="/vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="/js/grasp_mobile_progress_circle-1.0.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="/vendor/jquery.cookie/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script src="/vendor/chart.js/Chart.min.js"></script>
Everything was working until I tried to display a partial file in ng-view.
/public/app/app.js
angular.module('app', ['ngResource', 'ngRoute']);
angular.module('app').config(function($routeProvider,$locationProvider){
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$routeProvider
.when('/', {templateUrl: '/partials/main', controller: 'mainCtrl'});
});
angular.module('app').controller('mainCtrl', function($scope){
$scope.myVar = "Hello Angular";
});
/server/includes/layout.jade
doctype html 5
html
head
link(rel="stylesheet", href="/css/bootstrap.css")
link(rel="stylesheet", href="/vendor/toastr/toastr.css")
link(rel="stylesheet", href="/css/site.css")
body(ng-app="app")
block main-content
include scripts
/server/includes/scripts.jade (version number are not in the script)
script(type="text/javascript", src="/vendor/jquery/jquery.js") 2.1.0
script(type="text/javascript", src="/vendor/angular/angular.js") 1.2.16
script(type="text/javascript", src="/vendor/angular-resource/angular-resource.js")
script(type="text/javascript", src="/vendor/angular-route/angular-route.js")
script(type="text/javascript", src="/app/app.js")
/views/index.jade
extends ../includes/layout
block main-content
section.content
div(ng-view)
/views/partials/main.jade
h1 This a Partial
h2 {{ myVar }}
and finally server.js
var express = require('express'),
stylus = require('stylus');
var env = process.env.NODE_ENV = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development';
var app = express();
function compile(str, path){
return stylus(str).set('filename', path)
}
app.configure(function (){
app.set('views', __dirname + '/server/views');
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.use(express.logger('dev'));
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(stylus.middleware(
{
src: __dirname + '/public',
compile: compile
}
));
app.use(express.static (__dirname + '/public'));
});
app.get('/partials/:partialPath', function (req, res){
res.render('partials/' + req.params.partialPath);
})
app.get('*', function(req, res) {
res.render('index');
});
var port = 3030;
app.listen(port);
console.log('Listening on port' + port + '…');
Directory structure:
When I launch the 'node server.js' and go to 'localhost:3030', I get a blank page instead of "This is a Partial Hello Angular" with this HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html 5>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/bootstrap.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/vendor/toastr/toastr.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/site.css"/></head>
<body ng-app="app">
<section class="content">
<div ng-view="ng-view"></div>
</section>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/vendor/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/vendor/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/vendor/angular-resource/angular-resource.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/vendor/angular-route/angular-route.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/app/app.js"></script></body></html>
In the tutorial this config works perfectly, but when I run it, the ng-view is empty. Any idea why?
EDIT:
Node.js runs like a charm. Something must have changed in the conf or I forgot something. In the tutorial everything was installed with bower like I did, and the javascript, hrefs were pointing to /vendor/ in the public directory and it seemed like it worked.
When I looked in the Javascript console, I got this error message for all scripts: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<' which < is the beginning of an HTTP error message.
So I copied all the called files with error into /vendor/ change the url in "/server/includes/scripts.jade" like "/vendor/jquery/jquery.js" to "vendor/jquery.js" and it worked.
But I feel like I applied a patch. With bower, shouldn't it work with the previous settings?
Not sure how much this will help but I notice all the bower packages are in the 'bower_components' directory. That is the default for bower unless you specify another directory. So, if you want the bower components installed say, '/public/vendor', do the following:
1) create a file called ' .bowerrc ' and save it in your root directory ie. with gitignore, bower.json, etc.
2) in the file put:
{
"directory": "public/vendor"
}
That will load the bower components where you want them. The file ' .bowerrc ' is a config file for bower and you can find the guidance at: http://bower.io/
HTH
Thers is something off in your app.js file. Replace it with this and you should be good to go:
var app = angular.module('app', ['ngResource', 'ngRoute']);
angular.module('app').config(function($routeProvider, $locationProvider){
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$routeProvider
.when('/', { templateUrl: '/partials/main', controller: 'mainCtrl'});
});
angular.module('app').controller('mainCtrl', function($scope){
$scope.myVar = "Hello Angular";
});
app.get('*', function(req, res,next) {
if(req.xhr != true)
{
res.render('index');
} else
{
next();
}
});
modify like this
My ejs engine set up is app.js is like below:
// this parse html file as ejs file
app.engine('.html', require('ejs').__express);
app.set('view engine', 'html');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/view');
My directory is like this:
view (folder)
home.html
head.html
app.js
Home.html is like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>home</title>
<% include head %>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
and head.html is like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.5.js"></script>
the problem is the file head.html will not be parsed if the extension was html. Error says it expect ejs file. So there is a problem with include function?
As Elie Gnrd is suggesting, you use .ejs files directly by changing the view engine configuration of Express.
If that isn't an option, and you want/need to keep using .html as an extension for your templates, you have to be explicit in the include:
<% include head.html %>
You can use .ejs files directly by using app.set('view engine', 'ejs'); and renaming index.html to index.ejs.
Here is an example:
http://robdodson.me/blog/2012/05/31/how-to-use-ejs-in-express/
arrr ;)
you did not mention what app - so I assume Express >=3
solution : forget the dot and __express in
app.engine('.html', require('ejs').__express);
It should read :
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
change html file with ejs
-view
--home.ejs
--head.ejs
-app.js
set app view engine like
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
make index.ejs for main file and include home.ejs and head.ejs in index.ejs
<%- include('head')%>;
<%- include('home')%>;
and render it app.js like
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.render('index');
});
cmiiw..
I too had this problem and modified this file of my app:
myapp/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js
The function is:
function resolveInclude(name, filename) {
var path = join(dirname(filename), name);
var ext = extname(name);
if (!ext) path += '.ejs';
return path;
}
You can change the default extension or as in my case I changed the function to a more direct:
function resolveInclude(name, filename) {
return join(dirname(filename), name) + '.html';
}
They can modify the function as they wish.
I hope that is helpful.
Im trying out EJS as a view engine with Express. It seems that my layout.ejs is not used. I have two views index.ejs and layout.ejs both in my 'views' folder. It seems that index.js is rendered but layout.ejs is not. The layout.ejs file should be including a CSS file but when the page is rendered in the browser this is not there. Any test test text that I place in the layout.ejs file is not output with the response.
Am I missing an additional configuration step?
Thanks!
My server.js code:
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.render('index.ejs', {title: 'EJS Engine'});
});
app.listen(8080);
In my layout.ejs I am linking to a single css file which resides in the public folder.
layout.ejs:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title><%= title %></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css">
</head>
<body>
<%- body %>
</body>
</html>
index.ejs
<div id="container">
index.html
</div>
Here's the module you need:
https://www.npmjs.org/package/express-ejs-layouts
Do the following:
npm install express-ejs-layouts // install the layout module from the command line
var express = require("express")
,path = require('path')
,fs = require('fs')
,expressLayouts=require("express-ejs-layouts") // add this requirement
, app = express();
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(expressLayouts); // add this use()
app.use(express.static(__dirname));
Now the ejs engine should use your layout.
app.set('view options', { layout:'layout.ejs' });
Place layout.ejs into your views folder.
Alternately you can place layout.ejs into views/layouts folder and then use
app.set('view options', { layout:'layouts/layout.ejs' });
I have a similar issue. In my case I would rather use Jade but I have a requirement for a more "html" style template engine for a particular project. At first I considered express-partials or ejs-locals (as mentioned in a comment by Jonathan Lonowski) or even using html via the pipe or dot syntax within Jade templates (see here for more information about that option and this SO post). I am not able to introduce the additional dependencies for express-partials and ejs-locals into this project. These two projects do look good and might meet your needs.
If you do not want to use these projects, you can do something like the following:
views/layout-head.ejs
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>The title</title>
</head>
<body>
views/layout-foot.ejs
</body>
</html>
views/index.ejs (or any other page)
<% include layout-head %>
This is the index page - <%= title %>
<% include layout-foot %>
routes/index.js
exports.index = function(req, res){
res.render('index', { title: 'Express' });
}
This is not an optimal solution but it works. Most of my application will be a single page app and I have some other restrictions I have to work within so this works for my needs. This may not the best solution in many cases - especially if you have complex and/or changing layouts.
I'm trying to make a simple server with node, express and ejs for the template. I've gotten the server to point to the page, load it, and am even able to generate other bits of code with the include statement. However for some reason the style sheet will not load.
app.js
var express = require('express'),
app = express(),
http = require('http'),
server = http.createServer(app),
fs = require('fs');
var PORT = 8080;
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.render('board.ejs', {
title: "anything I want",
taco: "hello world",
something: "foo bar",
layout: false
});
});
app.listen(PORT);
console.log("Server working");
The ejs file is in a directory views/board.ejs
<html>
<head>
<title><%= title %></title>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='../styles/style.css' />
</head>
<body >
<h1> <%= taco %> </h1>
<p> <%= something %> </p>
</body>
</html>
and style.css is in a styles/style.css directory relative to app.js
p {
color:red;
}
I've tried every path that I can conceive of for the href of the link including relative to where my localhost points relative to app.js relative to board.ejs and even just style.css but none seem to work. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Declare a static directory:
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/style.css' />
in app.js:
you must first declare static directory
app.use("/styles",express.static(__dirname + "/styles"));
in ejs file :
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/styles/style.css' />
Recently I was working with this same thing and my CSS was not working. Finally, I get the trick. My static path was like below,
const app = express();
const publicDirectoryPath = path.join(__dirname, '../src/public');
const staticDirectory = express.static(publicDirectoryPath);
app.use(staticDirectory);
and my folder structure was like
The trick is that express access only defined static path, in my case CSS was outside of public so it was not working and suddenly I move CSS folder inside my public folder and that's it. Works beautifully.
Above example was for only one static path. For multiple static path you can use the code in the below
const app = express();
const publicDirectoryPath = path.join(__dirname, '../src/public');
const cssDirectoryPath = path.join(__dirname, '../src/css');
const staticDirectory = express.static(publicDirectoryPath);
const cssDirectory = express.static(cssDirectoryPath);
app.use(staticDirectory);
app.use('/css/',cssDirectory);
And my generic HTML file is
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Index</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/styles.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>this is index page</h1>
</body>
</html>
To set the entry point for your application dependancies like css, img etc add below line into your server.js (or which ever being used).
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/'))
This tells to get css files from current directory where server.js is present. Accordingly you can define relative path of css in html file.
With Express 4, you can easily set this up by using the following within your app.js file.
app.use('/static', express.static(path.join(__dirname,'pub')));
Place this early in your file, after you created your require constants, and declared your express app.
Its declaring a static directory, with the help of the path object, allowing you to have a place where all of your front-end resources are available. It's also giving it a virtual directory name (/static) that can be used on the front of the site, instead of the physical name you see within your project (/pub).
In your template you can do something like this in your head
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css_bundle.css"/>