Question

I’m trying to work on Peepcode’s Node.js Full Stack videos and it seems they’re using an older version of express/jade. No mention of using block/extends to render layouts.

The setup used in the app is to have a /views/layout.jade file that loads for all sub-apps. The sub-apps’ views are located in /apps//views.

My server.js seems pretty standard. Express is version 3.0.0rc1

require('coffee-script');

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

var app = express();

app.configure(function(){
  app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
  app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
  app.set('view engine', 'jade');
  app.use(express.favicon());
  app.use(express.logger('dev'));
  app.use(express.bodyParser());
  app.use(express.methodOverride());
  app.use(app.router);
  app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
});

app.configure('development', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler());
});

require('./apps/authentication/routes')(app)

http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){
  console.log("Express server listening on port " + app.get('port'));
});

My routes file for the sub-app is in /apps/authentication/routes

routes.coffee

routes = (app) ->

  app.get "/login", (req,res) ->
    res.render "#{__dirname}/views/login",
      title: "Login"
      stylesheet: 'login'

module.exports = routes

The view I intend on rendering for this.

login.jade

extends layout

block content
  form(action='/sessions', method='post')
    label
      | Username
      input(type='text', name='user')
    label
      | Password 
      input(type='password', name='password)
    input(type='submit', name='Submit')

And Finally the layout.

doctype 5
html
  head
    title= title
    link(rel='stylesheet', href='/stylesheets/#{stylesheet}.css')
  body
    block content

Going to localhost:3000/login renders this:

Express
500 Error: /Users/StevenNunez/code/HotPie/apps/authentication/views/login.jade:1 > 1| extends layout 2| 3| block content 4| form(action=’/sessions’, method=’post’) ENOENT, no such file or directory ‘/Users/StevenNunez/code/HotPie/apps/authentication/views/layout.jade’

My folder structure:

.
├── '
├── apps
│   └── authentication
│       ├── routes.coffee
│       └── views
│           └── login.jade
├── package.json
├── public
├── server.js
└── views
    ├── index.jade
    └── layout.jade

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

It looks like I had to just give the relative path in the extends call.

extends ../../../views/layout

block content
  form(action='/sessions', method='post')
    label
      | Username
      input(type='text', name='user')
    label
      | Password
      input(type='password', name='password')
    input(type='submit', name='Submit')

I didn’t have to set app.set('view options',{layout:false});