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ashley
ashley

Reputation: 2767

Angular and Express routing

I've been through many Angular-express seeds and kind of worked out how they work. The problem I am having is: 1). I would like to use ejs-locals for templating. 2). How to configure correctly the routing of the server-side and client-side. And also, when entering a URL such as /about, not to generate the error: cannot /get

angular app.js contains:

// angular stuff

$routeprovider.when('/', {
 templateUrl: 'index',
 controller: IndexCtrl
});
$routeprovider.when('/about', {
 templateUrl: 'partials/about',
 controller: IndexCtrl
});

express app,js contains:

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

routes folder contains 'index.js':

exports.index = function(req, res){
  res.render('index',{name:"Hello"});
};

exports.about = function (req, res) {
  res.render('partials/about');
};

Views folder contains index.ejs:

<!--HTML head/navigation bar here-->
<div ng-view></div>

and inside views folder is a partials folder: (Views/partials/)

index.ejs:

 <h1>Index</h1>

about.ejs:

<h1>About</h1>

Upvotes: 40

Views: 21112

Answers (4)

Raghav Manikandan
Raghav Manikandan

Reputation: 679

You can try something like this,

const path = require("path");

/* For serving static HTML files */
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    res.sendFile(path.resolve(__dirname + '/dist/index.html'));
});

/* For ejs, jade/pug engines */
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    res.render(path.join(__dirname, '/dist/index.pug'));
});

Upvotes: 1

Connor Leech
Connor Leech

Reputation: 18834

I was having some trouble with using jade and angular, this is what worked for me.

directory structure:

public
  |-js
  |-css
  |-views
    |-main
      -main.jade
    |-auth
      -login.jade
server
  |-includes
    -layout.jade
  |-views
    -index.jade
server.js

Then in the server.js config for routing looks like: 

app.configure(function(){
    app.set('views', __dirname + '/server/views');
    app.set('view engine', 'jade');
})
// server side route for the partials files
app.get('/views/*', function(req, res){
    res.render('../../public/views/' + req.params);
})

// everything handled by this route
app.get('*', function(req, res){
    res.render('index');
})

Then angular routes look something like this:

$routeProvider.when('/', {
    templateUrl: '/views/main/main',    // gets main.jade from server
    controller: 'mainCtrl'
})

My index.jade looks like this:

extends ../includes/layout

block main-content
    .navbar.navbar-inverse.navbar-fixed-top
        div(ng-include="'/views/account/navbar-login'")
    section.content
        div(ng-view)

Upvotes: 5

jaime
jaime

Reputation: 42031

Add these routes to your express server 

app.get('/partials/:filename', routes.partials);
app.use(routes.index);

Then in routes.js

exports.partials = function(req, res){
  var filename = req.params.filename;
  if(!filename) return;  // might want to change this
  res.render("partials/" + filename );
};

exports.index = function(req, res){
  res.render('index', {message:"Hello!!!"});
};

This will make sure that express returns rendered templates when making requests to partials/index and partials/about.

Here's a gist: https://gist.github.com/4277025

Upvotes: 31

asgoth
asgoth

Reputation: 35829

That's how I did it. I'm using Jade, but Ejs will be similar:

app.js

// Routes
app.get('/', routes.index);
app.get('/partials/:name', routes.partials);

My templates are stored in /views/partials:

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

Clientside you can now use angular's $routeProvider to load the partials:

/*global define */

define([
   'angular',
   'controllers/aController',
   'controllers/bController'],
   function (angular, aController, bController) {
    'use strict';

    return angular.module('controllers', [], ['$controllerProvider', '$routeProvider',
        function ($controllerProvider, $routeProvider) {
            $controllerProvider.register('AController', ['$scope', aController]);
            $controllerProvider.register('BController', ['$scope', bController]);
            // routes
            $routeProvider.when('/A', {templateUrl: 'partials/A', controller: aController});
            $routeProvider.when('/B', {templateUrl: 'partials/B', controller: bController});
            $routeProvider.otherwise({redirectTo: '/A'});
        }]);
    }
);

Upvotes: 5

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