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Asked: 2026-06-08T20:33:46+00:00

I have the usual nodejs express app… var express = require(‘express’); var app =

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I have the usual nodejs express app…

var express = require('express');

var app = express.createServer(
    express.bodyParser()
);

app.configure( function () {
    app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
    app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
    app.use("/public", express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
});

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
    res.render('index');
});

I have a index.ejs and layout.ejs in /views folder:

layout.ejs:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" manifest=""><head>
    <title>jQuery Plugin Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container container-fluid">
        <%- body %>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

index.ejs:

Hello world

index.ejs only renders the “Hello world” text without the surrounding layout.ejs wrapper. The ejs is working. It’s able to find the correct .ejs template, but it’s just ignoring the layout. I’ve also tried explictly adding layout file to app..

app.set('view options', { layout:'layout.ejs' });

All of this works fine locally, but not on Heroku. Here is my package.json:

{
  "name": "in1-test",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "author": "Iatek",
  "dependencies": {
    "express": ">=2.5.x",
    "ejs": ">=0.7.x"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": "0.6.x"
  }
}

Why no joy on the layout??? Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    When you deploy to Heroku it does an npm install for all your dependencies; because you have stated express >=2.5.x it will install the latest which is 3.0.0_betax. Express 3 does not have support for layouts in ejs (yet).

    To fix remove the “>=” and specify the version of express that is in your local version.

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