Reputation: 11193
this question has been asked a couple of times before, but i can't seem to solve this based on other answers. so whatever i do i seem to keep getting Failed to lookup view "API" in views directory "/Users/MYUSER/Desktop/matchmaking/app/views"
. even though the path seem right?
file structure
├───app
│ └───bin
│ └───models
│ └───node_modules
│ └───public
│ │ └───images
│ │ └───javascripts
│ │ └───stylesheets
│ └───routes
│ │ └───index
│ │ └───groups
│ │ └───index
│ │ └───users
│ └───views
│ │ └───error.jade
│ │ └───index.jade
│ │ └───layout.jade
│ └───app.js
│ └───package.json
│ └───config.js
│ └───upload.js
app.js
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var routes = require('./routes/index');
var users = require('./routes/users');
var games = require('./routes/games');
var groups = require('./routes/groups');
var jwt = require('jsonwebtoken'); // used to create, sign, and verify tokens
var config = require('./config'); // get our config file
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.Promise = global.Promise;
mongoose.connect(config.database); // connect to our database
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
// uncomment after placing your favicon in /public
//app.use(favicon(path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'favicon.ico')));
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use('/api', routes);
app.use('/api/users', users);
app.use('/api/games', games);
app.use('/api/groups', groups);
// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
// error handlers
// development error handler
// will print stacktrace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
module.exports = app;
index.js
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var graph = require('fbgraph');
var User = require('../models/user');
var jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var request = require('request');
var uploader = require('../upload');
var config = require('../config');
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
res.render('API', { title: 'Welcome to the api' });
});
module.exports = router;
Upvotes: 0
Views: 916
Reputation: 2014
Install jade
npm install jade
make sure there is views/API.jade, if you are rendering this page...please show the controller code
in your controller you are rendering API.JADE res.render("API",..
create a file in views folder .. API.jade
**API.jade**
extends layout
block content
h1= title
p Welcome to #{title}
Upvotes: 1