Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided

Question

I am working through setting up a http server using node.js and engine. However, I keep running into issues that I have little information on how to resolve I would apprecia

Answer 1

I just got this error message, and the problem was that I was not setting up my middleware properly.

I am building a blog in the MEAN stack and needed body parsing for the .jade files that I was using on the front end side. Here is the snippet of code from my "/middleware/index.js" file, from my project.

var express = require('express');
var morgan = require('morgan');
var session = require('express-session');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

module.exports = function (app) {
app.use(morgan('dev'));

// Good for now
// In the future, use connect-mongo or similar
// for persistant sessions
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
    extended: true
}));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(session({secret: 'building a blog', saveUninitialized: true, resave: true}));

Also, here is my "package.json" file, you may be using different versions of technologies. Note: because I am not sure of the dependencies between them, I am including the whole file here:

"dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "1.12.3",
    "consolidate": "0.12.1",
    "cookie-parser": "1.3.4",
    "crypto": "0.0.3",
    "debug": "2.1.1",
    "express": "4.12.2",
    "express-mongoose": "0.1.0",
    "express-session": "1.11.1",
    "jade": "1.9.2",
    "method-override": "2.3.2",
    "mongodb": "2.0.28",
    "mongoose": "4.0.2",
    "morgan": "1.5.1",
    "request": "2.55.0",
    "serve-favicon": "2.2.0",
    "swig": "1.4.2"
  }

Hope this helps someone! All the best!