Can't get Node.js and Express working on the Code Racer Project.

Express has undergone a lot of changes since this code was made, it may be you need to do a "require('eco');" at the top of the file to make sure express knows about that format.

You also need to make sure eco is specified in the dependencies section of the package.json file

I'm having the same problem. I have required eco and it is in my dependencies, but I keep getting the following error:

TypeError: Property 'engine' of object #<View> is not a function

Seems like there's a missing bit of configuration or something?

So.. after a bit of digging around I found this article on migrating from express 2 to express 3 which says that the signature which templating languages must export in order to work with express has changed. So, guessed that that was the problem. I found out about consolidate.js which is a library designed to solve this problem. The readme has an express example, and I managed to solve the problem by adding consolidate to the dependencies:

 "dependencies": {
      "coffee-script": "1.5.0",
      "express": "3.x",
      "eco": "*",
      "consolidate": "*"
  }

(run npm install after this - thanks Richard) and then requiring consolidate and using it to set app.engine, such that my code looks like this:

require 'coffee-script'
express = require 'express'
cons = require 'consolidate'

app = express()
app.engine 'eco', cons.eco

app.get '/', (req, res) ->
  res.render 'index.eco', layout: false

app.listen(3000)
console.log "Server is listening"

The CodeRacer express script now works as expected

@Hannah Thank you! I had difficulty in solving this problem but it finally worked.

I tried this and it got me passed that same error you had but it doesn't render using eco. I'v attached a screenshot of my server.coffee

http://cl.ly/image/1R2g093W2t0x

Thanks Hannah. That totally worked.

@otherPeopleReadingThis - don't forget to run "npm install" after updating your JSON file. After doing that Hannah's code worked exactly as written above.

@Sebastien Barrau,

Did you ever get it to work? Did you try with exactly the same code as in the snippet I provided? If not.. what error did you get?

@Sebastien Barrau,

Did you ever get it to work? Did you try with exactly the same code as in the snippet I provided? If not.. what error did you get?

Another solution to this problem is to just use an older version of express. For example in the package.JSON file you just replace: "express": "*"

with: "express": "2.5.7"

This made all of my problems go away.

Thank you so much Hannah!

Thank you so much Hannah~!!!!!

But it didn't render layout.eco as a default view....anyone overcome it ?