Can't find module 'dust'

Question

I'm trying to use Dustjs with Express but encountering a problem. Here my code:

var express = require('express')
  , bodyParser = require('body-parser')
  , cons = require('consolidate')
  , app = express();


app.engine('html', cons.dust);
app.set('view engine', 'dust');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');

app.use(bodyParser());

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.render('home', { name: 'Tom' });
})

app.listen(4000);

and dependencies:

  "dependencies": {
    "express": "4.x",
    "body-parser": "*",
    "consolidate": "*",
    "dustjs-linkedin": "*",
    "dustjs-helpers": "*"
  },

When I run the code, an error message showed up

Error: Cannot find module 'dust'

I don't get it. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

I find that dustjs is Linkedln fork of Dust. So I thought I wouldn't need to install dust, just dustjs-linkedin and dustjs-helpers are enough. Am I wrong? — Phieu, May 08 '14 at 13:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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The original dust module have been deprecated, and consolidate does not support dustjs-linkedin.
A suggestion is to use Adaro, created by PayPal for KrakenJS.

Sample code:

var dustjs = require('adaro');    
var app = express();

app.engine('dust', dustjs.dust({});
app.set('view engine', 'dust');

with info from here

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered May 08 '14 at 13:55

gustavohenke

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Thanks. I got it working. Another question, I don't want the template's extension is ".dust" by default. Is there any way to change that? – Phieu May 08 '14 at 14:20
Just change the call to `app.engine` to use what you want. See [here](http://expressjs.com/3x/api.html#app.engine) for reference – gustavohenke May 08 '14 at 14:39
I changed it to `app.engine('html', dustjs.dust({}))`, but the message showed up again. – Phieu May 08 '14 at 15:15
Seems like `view engine` is the default engine to use when your call to `res.render()` misses the extension. So you'll have to set it to html as well ([ref](http://expressjs.com/3x/api.html#app-settings)) – gustavohenke May 08 '14 at 20:08
I changed that as well but another error: `Error: ENOENT, open '/home/abc/Dropbox/Express/webapp/app/views/home.dust'` It seems like it still looks up the .dust file – Phieu May 09 '14 at 07:59

Can't find module 'dust'

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