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Ivan Loenko
Ivan Loenko

Reputation: 39

How to change the default path of view files in a sails?

Perhaps i want to store my views in /pages directory. Next code in configs of sails directory does not reinit views path:

  paths: {
    views: path.normalize(__dirname + '/../pages')
  }

but code for public dir works well:

  paths: {
    public: path.normalize(__dirname + '/../any_public_dir')
  }

What can i do?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2361

Answers (2)

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 541

If you do not use sails lift, but rather have your own app and lift from inside it:

var Sails = require('sails');
Sails.lift({}, function(err, server) {});

then you can specify the path there

var Sails = require('sails');
Sails.lift({
  //environment: 'test', // if you need to set 
  //hooks:{foo: false}, // if you want to disable some of them
  paths: { views: 'mydir/views' }, // relative to appDir
}, function(err, server) {});

You can later (in the sails controllers/services) get the current views dir:

var vdir = sails.config.paths.views;

To get other configurable pathes console.log(Object.keys(sails.config));

Upvotes: 0

sgress454
sgress454

Reputation: 24948

Because of the way that Sails loads configuration, it's not currently possible to change the path for most things from within a file in the config folder. You can, however, do it in the .sailsrc file:

{
  "paths": {
    "views": "../pages"
  }
}

Upvotes: 5

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