Jade layout cannot be found in subdirectory

Question

My settings:

My structrue directory looks like this:

/views/ |-- index.jade |-- layout.jade /account/ |-- login.jade |-- register.jade 

I configured my view engine as follows:

 app.set('view engine', 'jade'); 

Edit: I also have

 app.set('views', __dirname + '/views'); 

My controllers look like this:

 app.get('/login', redirectIfLogined, function(req, res){ res.render('account/login', { title: "Login", redir: req.query.redir}); }); app.get('/register', redirectIfLogined, function(req, res) { res.render('account/register', { title: "Register"}); }); 

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My problem

With the settings as described, I get a 500 error:

 500 Error: failed to locate view "layout" at Function.compile (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:58:15) at ServerResponse._render (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:414:18) at ServerResponse.render (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:315:17) at ServerResponse._render (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:429:10) at ServerResponse.render (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:315:17) at D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\controllers\accountController.js:6:13 at callbacks (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:272:11) at D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\modules\middleware\account.js:27:9 at callbacks (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:272:11) at param (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:246:11) 

As soon as I copy my layout.jade file to the /account/ folder, it works fine. Unfortunately, this does not make sense, as it made me have redundant layout files.

What am I missing?

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Btw. This is a snapshot of the code from AzzNomad express / mongoose template , which is very useful to learn how to express using mongoose.

Answer 1

You need to put

extends ../layout

in your view under accounts, since the layout is not in the same folder.

Answer 2

You should also set the view path as it is in a directory other than the script application.

 app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');