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Making pages

Save all HTML pages (called templates below) to the app/views folder otherwise they won't be recognised by the application.

All template files should have the .html extension.

Any template will be automatically served. For example if you add a template called help.html and then go to localhost:3000/help in your browser, you will see that page.

Folders also work, so you can make the template views/account/profile.html, and then view the page by going to localhost:3000/account/profile.

For more complex prototypes, you will need to use Nunjucks.

Nunjucks

All templates used in your app should be written in Nunjucks syntax.

For example, the following route could be added to routes.js:

router.get('/hello-world', function (req, res) {
  res.render('hello_world', {'message' : 'Hello world'});
});

Our views/hello_world.html file would be:

<html>
    <head><title>Hello world page</title></head>
    <body>
        <p>{{ message }}.</p>
    </body>
</html>

The resulting HTML page will be:

<html>
    <head><title>Hello world page</title></head>
    <body>
        <p>Hello world.</p>
    </body>
</html>

You can read more in the Nunjucks documentation.