In this blog, we have learned how to use the templating engines and how we can install and integrate it in your node application.Doctype html html ( lang = 'en' ) head title = title script ( type = 'text/javascript' ). Now go to the browser and run the You will see the desired output Conclusion Save all the files and run the server using :- npm start This means that we are telling express that you want to compile dynamic content using pug as a templating engine and where to find these templates. Next step is to just add the pug file in the app.js file. P.firstParagraph This is the first template!!! Pug template exampleĪdd the code in the body section h1#myHeading Pug template For getting the HTML template in your pug file, just simply write html in the code section you will get the pug structure of the html template. npm install pugĪfter installing, create the index.pug file inside the views folder having the ‘.pug’ as an extension. Install PUG as a dependency in our Node application. But ‘if’ statements, ‘iterations’ will be included in this. It use minimimal html and custom template language which is extensible but generally offers only a set of things of operations you can do. Pug simplifies the creation of reusable HTML as well as the rendering of data from a database or API.

It features a simpler syntax and compiles to HTML, allowing you to be more productive and your code to be more readable. Pug is a Node and browser-based template engine. And all the dependencies will get install in this file only.įor installing express, use npm install nodejs expressįor installing nodemon, use npm install nodemon What is pug? Here we begin!!! Setting up Nodejsįor using the templating engine we need the node to be installed in our system and then create the package.json file in your project with the help of following command : npm initĪfter running this command, you will see the package.json file in your folder. And how we can hold the dynamic content in our HTML pages using the templating engine. In this blog, we will look how we can use pug as a templating engine for building our node application.

Example pug template