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Posted by Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

Coderacer: Node is not rendering

I am trying to do the Coderacer example but something is not working very well. I've just started with the first lines of code and installing the packages. Here is the code:

server.coffee

require 'coffee-script'
express = require 'express'

app = express()

app.get '/', (req, res) ->
     res.send "Hello from express"

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

index.eco

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html lang="end">
<head>
    <title>Our Page</title>
    <body>
        <h1>Our Index</h1>
    </body>
</head>
</html>

First I have to tell that the 

express.createServer()

has change to 

express()

Well now I am trying to render the index.eco file but is not working by changing

res.send "Hello from express"

to

res.render 'index.eco', layout: false

Any ideas?

2 Answers

Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points
Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points

It looks like you might simply have a indentation issue. Rather than:

app.get '/', (req, res) ->
res.send "Hello from express"

The second line should be indented further so that coffeescript knows that it's the body of the function:

app.get '/', (req, res) ->
  res.send "Hello from express"

Let me know if that helps.

Rodrigo Muñoz
PLUS
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points
Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

I have mistake while typing into this post, but now I've fixed. The code in the project have the proper indentation but it's still not working. Now while I came back to sublime text it appear an alert that it's not supporting coffeescript again and the highlight have stoped. Does this have to do with the same problem I have that the res.render() is not working?