use consolidate to make template engine configurable

config/env/all.js

@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ module.exports = {
 	root: rootPath,
 	port: process.env.PORT || 3000,
 	db: process.env.MONGOHQ_URL,
+	templateEngine: 'jade',
 
 	// The secret should be set to a non-guessable string that
 	// is used to compute a session hash
 	sessionSecret: 'MEAN',
 	// The name of the MongoDB collection to store sessions in
 	sessionCollection: 'sessions'
-}
+};

config/express.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  * Module dependencies.
  */
 var express = require('express'),
+    consolidate = require('consolidate'),
     mongoStore = require('connect-mongo')(express),
     flash = require('connect-flash'),
     helpers = require('view-helpers'),
@@ -31,12 +32,17 @@ module.exports = function(app, passport, db) {
         app.use(express.logger('dev'));
     }
 
+    // assign the template engine to .html files
+    app.engine('html', consolidate[config.templateEngine]);
+
+    // set .html as the default extension
+    app.set('view engine', 'html');
+
     // Set views path, template engine and default layout
     app.set('views', config.root + '/app/views');
-    app.set('view engine', 'jade');
 
     // Enable jsonp
-    app.enable("jsonp callback");
+    app.enable('jsonp callback');
 
     app.configure(function() {
         // The cookieParser should be above session
@@ -68,7 +74,7 @@ module.exports = function(app, passport, db) {
 
         // Routes should be at the last
         app.use(app.router);
-        
+
         // Setting the fav icon and static folder
         app.use(express.favicon());
         app.use(express.static(config.root + '/public'));
@@ -90,12 +96,12 @@ module.exports = function(app, passport, db) {
         });
 
         // Assume 404 since no middleware responded
-        app.use(function(req, res, next) {
+        app.use(function(req, res) {
             res.status(404).render('404', {
                 url: req.originalUrl,
                 error: 'Not found'
             });
         });
 
     });
-};
+};

package.json

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "express": "~3.4.7",
     "jade": "~1.0.2",
+    "consolidate": "~0.10.0",
     "mongoose": "~3.8.3",
     "connect-mongo": "~0.4.0",
     "connect-flash": "~0.1.1",

public/views/articles/view.html

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 <section data-ng-controller="ArticlesController" data-ng-init="findOne()">
-    <span>{{article.created | date:'medium'}}</span>/
+    <span>{{article.created | date:'medium'}}</span> /
     <span>{{article.user.name}}</span>
     <h2>{{article.title}}</h2>
     <div data-ng-show="global.user._id == article.user._id">
         <a class="btn" href="/#!/articles/{{article._id}}/edit">
         	<i class="icon-edit"></i>
-        </a> 
+        </a>
         <a class="btn" data-ng-click="remove();">
             <i class="icon-trash"></i>
         </a>