Express - View Rendering

How to create views for Express?

-Template engines (referred to as "view engines" by Express) allow you to specify the structure of an output document in a template

• Templates are often used to create HTML, but can also create other types of documents
• In your application settings code you set the template engine to use and the location where Express should look for templates using the 'views' and 'view engines' settings

Hello Template

const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const app = express();

// Set directory to contain the templates ('views')
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));

// Set view engine to use, in this case 'some_template_engine_name'
app.set('view engine', 'some_template_engine_name');

//Assuming that you have a template file named "index.<template_extension>" that contains placeholders for data variables named 'title' and "message", 
//you would call Response.render() in a route handler function to create and send the HTML response:
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  res.render('index', { title: 'About dogs', message: 'Dogs rock!' });
});