Express Generator Without Jade

Question

I am trying to generate an express skeleton, using the express generator. So it would be this:

$ npm install express-generator -g

However, it

Answer 1

This generator seems to handle EJS templates. EJS is just HTML with the ability to insert variables. Well... Like a templating engine. But EJS is also the rendering engine for HTML.

In the app.js of the generator you can see this line (15):

app.set('view engine', '{views}');

So my guess is that if you select the EJS engine when installing, it will be good. As long as you put your html files in the specified folder (line 14, app.js):

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));