Templates.js html server rendering

Bruce Lee

Usecase

User make an API request on url, eg. http://localhost:4567/api/test?message=world.
Server render the template with the message "world" and send back the response, eg.

Template hello.tpl:

<html>
<body>
	<div>hello {message}</div>
<body>
<html>

The code in the controller is res.render('user/hello.tpl', req.query);. The response I got back is a json instead of a html page:

{
    "message": "world",
    "loggedIn": true,
    "relative_path": "",
    "template": {
        "name": "user/hello.tpl",
        "user/hello.tpl": true
    },
    "url": "/hello",
    "bodyClass": "page-hello"
}

What have I miss? Please advise, thanks!

yariplus

The NodeBB middleware automatically sets the response type to JSON for any route beginning with api

Set the begining of the route to anything other than api and it should work.

yariplus

Alternatively, I think setting

res.locals.isAPI = false

before you render would also work.

Bruce Lee

Thanks again @yariplus, it works with res.locals.isAPI = false.

PitaJ

@Bruce-Lee first, remove the .tpl from the route.

Bruce Lee

@PitaJ do you mean to code as
res.render('user/hello', req.query);
instead of
res.render('user/hello.tpl', req.query);