How can I get Express to output nicely formatted HTML?

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In your main app.js or what is in it’s place:

Express 4.x

if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
  app.locals.pretty = true;
}

Express 3.x

app.configure('development', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler());
  app.locals.pretty = true;
});

Express 2.x

app.configure('development', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler());
  app.set('view options', { pretty: true });
});

I put the pretty print in development because you’ll want more efficiency with the ‘ugly’ in production. Make sure to set environment variable NODE_ENV=production when you’re deploying in production. This can be done with an sh script you use in the ‘script’ field of package.json and executed to start.

Express 3 changed this because:

The “view options” setting is no longer necessary, app.locals are the local variables merged with res.render()’s, so [app.locals.pretty = true is the same as passing res.render(view, { pretty: true }).

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