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JavaScript Express Basics (2015) Using Templates with Express Review the res.render method

Julia J
Julia J
6,251 Points
Posted by Julia J
Julia J
6,251 Points

Injecting posts object into template

When I added the code: res.render('posts', {posts: 'posts'}); like how they did it in the video, it wouldn't work. I put it inside this section of code: app.get('/', function(req, res){ res.render('index') res.render('main') });

However, when I did that, it said that task 1 was no longer passing. (adding the res.render('main') was task one)

Am I doing the right method, and just putting it in the wrong spot, or should I use a different line of code altogether?

app.js 
'use strict';

var express = require('express'),
  posts = require('./mock/posts.json');

var app = express();

app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/templates')

app.get('/', function(req, res){
  res.render('index')
  res.render('main')
});

app.listen(3000, function() {
  console.log("The frontend server is running on port 3000!");
});

1 Answer

Arturo Alviar
Arturo Alviar
15,739 Points
Arturo Alviar
Arturo Alviar
15,739 Points

Hi Kevin,
The second question of this challenge was worded a bit weird so you may have misunderstood it. You are doing the right thing but passing in the object to the wrong template file. In this case we want to do this: 

res.render('main', {posts: posts})