Using dotjs in express

Question

I want to use dotjs to replace Jade for Express

I changed

app.set('view engine', 'jade');

to

app.set('view engine', 'html');    
app.engine('html', dot.compile);

but it isn't loading for a long time and I'm not getting a response;

what's wrong with it ?

Do you mean [this](https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs)? How are you going to use it in Express? It's a Chrome extension... — beatgammit, Apr 21 '13 at 16:16
take at look at the markdown example, you need to compose your middleware like that https://github.com/visionmedia/express/blob/master/examples/markdown/index.js — generalhenry, Apr 21 '13 at 16:28

albertshaw · Answer 1 · 2014-01-03T09:40:16.217

A simple way is to use express-dot:

npm install express-dot

and in your app.js:

var doT = require('express-dot');
// (optional) set globals any thing you want to be exposed by this in {{= }} and in def {{# }}
doT.setGlobals({ ... });
app.set('view engine', 'dot' );
app.engine('dot', doT.__express );

Of cause, it is suggested that compose your own as generalhenry said.
Becase if you do that , you will understand express and dot better.
express-dot do not support pre-compile, so I have a simple pre-compile example in my Github repo.
Good luck.

Using dotjs in express

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