I am building a very small example application to practice a login page. I am working with :
1) Bootstrap
2) Bootswatch - in particular with Journal form
3) Font Awesome
After successfully setting up all my components I have a very strange error if I apply the following change in my index.js file in charge of rendering my localhost:5000 window
router.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('welcome')); <-- This way works
router.get('/', (req, res) => res.render('welcome')); <-- This way throws error
app.js
const express = require('express');
const expressLayouts = require('express-ejs-layouts');
const app = express();
app.use(expressLayouts);
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
// Routes
app.use('/', require('./routes/index'));
app.use('/users', require('./routes/users'));
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 5000;
app.listen(PORT, console.log(`Server started on port ${PORT}`));
index.js
const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
router.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('welcome')); // <-- This way works
router.get('/', (req, res) => res.render('welcome')); // <-- This way throws error
module.exports = router;
users.js
const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
// Login Page
router.get('/login', (req, res) => res.send('Login'));
// Register Page
router.get('/register', (req, res) => res.send('Register'));
module.exports = router;
layouts.ejs
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<script src="https://kit.fontawesome.com/My_KIT.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../components/bootstrap.min.css" />
<title>App</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<%- body %>
</div>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-J6qa4849blE2+poT4WnyKhv5vZF5SrPo0iEjwBvKU7imGFAV0wwj1yYfoRSJoZ+n" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-wfSDF2E50Y2D1uUdj0O3uMBJnjuUD4Ih7YwaYd1iqfktj0Uod8GCExl3Og8ifwB6" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</body>
</html>
The error:
Error: Failed to lookup view "layout" in views directory "/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/views" at Function.render (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:580:17) at ServerResponse.render (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:1012:7) at /home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/express-ejs-layouts/lib/express-layouts.js:113:20 at tryHandleCache (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js:260:5) at View.exports.renderFile [as engine] (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js:459:10) at View.render (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/express/lib/view.js:135:8) at tryRender (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:640:10) at Function.render (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:592:3) at ServerResponse.render (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:1012:7) at ServerResponse.res.render (/home/emanuele/Desktop/cashman-tracker-dashboard/node_modules/express-ejs-layouts/lib/express-layouts.js:77:18)
What I have done so far:
1) I thought it was an error due to the render method and went to check the official documentation about it but I didn't see any problem with the small portion of code I wrote.
2) A print screen is also provided if that is easier to understand:
Please point to the right direction for solving this issue