Views in subdirectories with expressjs
I tested it in local and everything works. Just one mistake
from app.set('view engine', 'handlebars'); to app.set('view engine', 'hbs');
my example
var express = require('express'), app = express();app.engine('html', require('hbs').__express);app.set('views', __dirname+'/views/');app.set('view engine', 'hbs');app.get('/', function(req, res) { res.render('main/index',{title :"page index"}); });app.listen(3000);
I changed two things and it worked for me.
First
app.set('views', [path.join(__dirname, 'views'),path.join(__dirname, 'views/main')]);I passed an array to the app.set and added the subdirectory
Second
res.render('../main/index', {title :"page index"}, function(err, html) { console.log(err);});I changed the directory path to relatively navigate from the parent directory.Using the ../ makes it work somehow. Also, once you add the directory to the app.set, you can call index directly e.g., res.render('index',...
Change your set views. it should be
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));