How do I use HTML as the view engine in Express?

Solution 1:

The answers at the other link will work, but to serve out HTML, there is no need to use a view engine at all, unless you want to set up funky routing. Instead, just use the static middleware:

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

Solution 2:

To make the render engine accept html instead of jade you can follow the following steps;

1. Install consolidate and swig to your directory.

    npm install consolidate
    npm install swig
   

2. add following lines to your app.js file

   var cons = require('consolidate');
   
   // view engine setup
   app.engine('html', cons.swig)
   app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
   app.set('view engine', 'html');
   

3. add your view templates as .html inside “views” folder. Restart you node server and start the app in the browser.

Though this will render html without any issue, I would recommend you to use JADE by learning it. Jade is an amazing template engine and learning this will help you achieve better design & scalability.