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streetlight
streetlight

Reputation: 5968

Mustache and Express in Node

I'm trying desperately to tie in the mu2 module into Express in node.js. However, I can't seem to figure it out, and when trying to run the example using the mu2express module, I keep getting this error when trying to run:

module.js:340
throw err;
      ^
Error: Cannot find module 'mu2Express'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:362:17)
at require (module.js:378:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/myapp.js:1:80)
at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.runMain (module.js:492:10)

Is this an error caused by something locally, or with the module itself? Right now, I'm using the node http module to work with mu2 exclusively, but I really want to use express is possible.

Can anyone out there help? Is there more information I should provide? I'm very new to node.js and I could use some direction if possible!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8209

Answers (2)

Deathspike
Deathspike

Reputation: 8800

Look into consolidate:

https://github.com/visionmedia/consolidate.js/

It is made by the man behind Express himself and has support for Hogan and Handlebars.

EDIT:

You can initialize Express with this for consolidate

var express = require('express');
var cons = require('consolidate');
var app = express();

app.engine('html', cons.hogan);
app.set('view engine', 'html');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');

Renders will now be served from /views with HTML extension and Mustache-flavor syntax.

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
    res.render('index', {msg: 'Hello world!'}
});

And a basic template, again just mustache-flavor syntax

Hello {{msg}}

Upvotes: 5

KARASZI Istv&#225;n
KARASZI Istv&#225;n

Reputation: 31477

You're requiring the mu2Express module from the myapp.js file, so you need to install it first.

You'll need to create a package.json file with at least the following content:

{
  "name": "myProject",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
    "mu2express": "~0.0.1"
  }
}

And I'm not sure, that the examples are good for this project, you may need to require mu2express instead of mu2Express.

Upvotes: 0

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