How to integrate view engines like SWIG, EJS, JADE etc in total.Js

[Dave Alex]

How can we integrate  view engiens like SWIG, EJS, JADE etc in total.Js. Is there any example relating to this?

[Peter Širka]

Hi Dave,

here is implementation of JADE and SWIG: https://github.com/totaljs/modules/

Thanks

[Eugene De Klerk]

Hi Peter

Im completely new to total.js and jade. I have been trying to run the example from github without any success. 

What i do:

Create folder on my hard drive say "c:\test"

Then in the command promt i do "c:\test> total" which creates the directories folders and installs total.js

I then follow the instructions on github

"c:\test> npm install total.js"
"c:\test> npm install jade"

Then i copy the jade.js file from "the c:\test\node_modules\jade" folder to a folder created by myself called "modules"

With all of this done i ran the server and got the default hello world screen from total.js

I then created a new file in the views folder called jadetest.jade with the following content

html
  head
   h1 Test Site
  body
   h1 Test Site

in the default controller i change self.view('homepage'); to self.view('jadetest');

with this done i get a server error

view "jadetest" not found. 

Is there anywhere i should be setting something in total.js that would tell it that im using jade or anything else im missing.

Im sure this is not very complicated but i can not find a single complete example or help. 

[Peter Širka]

Hi Eugene,

you must download a module with Jade for total.js, because total.js has own view engine.

Read here:

https://github.com/totaljs/modules/tree/master/jade

Please give me a feedback.

Thanks.