Error: Failed to lookup view "index" in views directory "/test/dist/app/views"

[alexsuslov]

OS X:

init

$> yo angular-fullstack --coffee --jade

• all yes ;)

$> grunt serve:dist

$> cd dist
$> node server.js

connect.multipart() will be removed in connect 3.0
visit https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/wiki/Connect-3.0 for alternatives
connect.limit() will be removed in connect 3.0
Express server listening on port 3000 in development mode
finished populating things
finished populating users

Chrome http://localhost:3000

...
Error: Failed to lookup view "index" in views directory "/test/dist/app/views"
...

'app' - unnecessary

[DaftMonk]

You need to run node in production mode for the distribution build.

E.g.

$ NODE_ENV=production node server.js

[ddad10]

I get the same error running in production

[dearlordylord]

edited just realized that I forgot Grunt stuff. Sorry.

[adeperio]

Hey Im getting this issue too...can run dist locally but when I deploy to heroku i get this error

[jhurray]

same here.... any fix yet?

[tgienger]

For me I had to go into lib/config/express.js and change:

app.use(express.favicon(path.join(config.root, '/app', 'favicon.ico')));
app.use(express.static(path.join(config.root, '/app')));
app.set('views', config.root + '/app/views');

To:

app.use(express.favicon(path.join(config.root, '/', 'favicon.ico')));
app.use(express.static(path.join(config.root, '/')));
app.set('views', config.root + '/views');

[huangjihua]

Error: Failed to lookup view "index" in views directory "./views"
at EventEmitter.app.render (K:\项目\steven\GitHub\imooc-project2\imooc\node_modules\express\lib\application.js:519:17)
at ServerResponse.res.render (K:\项目\steven\GitHub\imooc-project2\imooc\node_modules\express\lib\response.js:904:7)
at app.get.res.render.title (K:\项目\steven\GitHub\imooc-project2\imooc\app.js:16:13)
at Layer.handle as handle_request
at next (K:\项目\steven\GitHub\imooc-project2\imooc\node_modules\express\lib\router\route.js:100:13)
at Route.dispatch (K:\项目\steven\GitHub\imooc-project2\imooc\node_modules\express\lib\router\route.js:81:3)
at Layer.handle as handle_request
at K:\项目\steven\GitHub\imooc-project2\imooc\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:235:24
at Function.proto.process_params (K:\项目\steven\GitHub\imooc-project2\imooc\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:313:12)
at K:\项目\steven\GitHub\imooc-project2\imooc\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:229:12

[tpflueger]

Was anything solved on this? I keep having the same error as above and wasn't able to fix it.

[karthikeyana]

use this code to solve the issue

app.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.render("index");
});

[akhil-sharma25]

I fixed this error as I got it couple of times:
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.render("/index");
});
never put "/" before rendering instead use :
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.render("index");
});

[juanjosejaramillo]

Make sure that your folder is in the proper path. Accidentally I placed the folder inside my controllers folder and that's why I was getting that error.

[Yohei-Shiina]

I had the same issue and it turned out that I named views/index as index."js" but "jsx"