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Masiar
Masiar

Reputation: 21352

Error: Failed to lookup view in express + jade

this is the code I have

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

exports.makeObservable = function(state, path, cb) {
    app.get(path, function(req, res){
        res.render('observable.jade', state);
        //call callback with new user
        cb(req);
    });

    app.listen('9999'); 
}

Whenever I try to reach the path I receive the following error: Error: Failed to lookup view "observable.jade". I also tried to pass observable without the .jade but it gives the same error. I have both observable.jade and layout.jade in my /views folder.

What am I missing? Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6492

Answers (2)

Warren Davis
Warren Davis

Reputation: 333

FWIW: I have my views in an adjacent directory (ie root/server, root/client), and was having the same issues described here. The one thing I did differently than the OP, was to prepend a '/' in my app.set when climbing out of the server directory; ie:

this: app.set('views', __dirname + '/../client/');

instead of: app.set('views', __dirname + '../client/');

HTH

(Thanks a TON to the OP and Pickels!)

Upvotes: 2

Masiar
Masiar

Reputation: 21352

I finally solved the problem thanks to the suggestions in the comments. First of all I checked if the directory from which the script was executing contained the directory /views where I put the .jade files. I couldn't solve the problem at first since I couldn't figure from which this script was executed, so I put a console.log(view) at line 493 in /express/lib/application.js. It printed out the view object that contained the root from which the script was executed, thus I moved the /views folder there and everything worked.

Upvotes: 2

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