Jade - missing directory

[Bessie Malek]

When I tried my code, I got this error:

5082Error: Failed to lookup view "index" in views directory "/Users/razoyo-dev/NodeSchool/templates"

Is this one my fault?

Here's my code:

var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var app = express();

app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'templates'));
app.get('/home', function (request, response) {
  response.render ('index', {date: new Date().toDateString()});
  response.end(process.argv[2]);
});
app.listen(process.argv[2]);

[Professor Azat Mardan]

hint: app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'templates'));

[Bessie Malek]

Thanks for trying to help me, but what did you mean? I already had that line in my code

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'templates'))

which is what the directions told me to do. Where you telling me to do that, too?

What did work was this:

app.set('views', process.argv[3]);

I think these directions are a bit confusing:

This is how you can specify the path to the template files in the folder templates:

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'templates'))

[Professor Azat Mardan]

@bessieatrazoyo

This is you can specify folder name in general, meaning example:

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'templates'))

But you need to have specific code to solve the problem:

app.set('views', process.argv[3]);

[Bessie Malek]

Oh, ok. My apologies for being this dense. ExpressWorks is such a great tool for learning, but I'm struggling regardless. I will get it in the end!

[Professor Azat Mardan]

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