I'm trying to render a very simple Pug template from a route in my Webtask.io serverless Node app. Here's my attempt:
'use latest';
import express from 'express';
import pug from 'pug'
const app = express();
app.set('view engine', 'pug');
...
app.get('/', (req, res) =>
{
var page = `
#message
h1 Hello World Foo
h2 pug's in the house`;
const HTML = pug.render(page);
res.status(200).send(HTML)
});
...
module.exports = fromExpress(app);
and here's the error I'm receiving:
Error: Pug:2:1
1|
> 2| #message
-------^
3| h1 Hello World Foo
4| h2 pug's in the house
unexpected token "indent"
I've registered Pug as the view engine for the express app, however, it seems like Pug is not getting invoked. What am I missing? How do you register Pug so it will render templates inside a Webtask.io Node app?
I've not been able to find any examples doing this with Pug, however, I've found a post saying it's possible. This post talks about Webtask compiler. I cannot find how you make Pug a compiler.
I'm not married to Pug. Is there a better choice for rendering dynamic HTML from templates that will work with Webtask approach? I've Googled for Handlebars and could not find an example.
Thanks for your time.