01 - Set up a Template Engine - Advanced Node and Express - freeCodeCamp

Template Engines allow us to use simple markups to specify page layouts. They will then convert this into a HTML page to return to our users. Pug is one you can use with express.

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00:00 - What is a Template Engine? 00:33 - Example Project 01:06 - Setting up Pug with Express app.set() Assigns setting name to value. You may store any value that you want, but certain names can be used to configure the behavior of the server. These special names are listed in the app settings table. https://expressjs.com/en/api.html#app.set 03:30 - Pug Templates 05:14 - Rendering Pug Pages - response.render() Renders a view and sends the rendered HTML string to the client. https://expressjs.com/en/api.html#res.render 05:30 - How Template Engines Work 06:40 - Challenge Solution

-————————————————————————————————————- Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers. For bug reports, feature requests and questions, open an issue. For discussion join the chat room.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting—running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser.

Express.js, or simply Express, is a web application framework for Node.js. It is designed for building web applications and APIs. It has been called the de facto standard server framework for Node.js. Express runs between the server created by Node.js and the frontend pages of a web application. Express also handles an application's routing.

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