No such file or directory

[itotallyrock]

I'm running into the same issue and it involves the differences in operating systems. This is because the application works as intended on windows, but fails on linux with
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/views/layouts/main.handlebars'

Here is my file structure.

|-- index.js
|-- package.json
|-- public
|   |-- css
|   |   `-- global.css
|   |-- img
|   `-- js
|       `-- main.js
`-- views
    |-- 404.handlebars
    |-- index.handlebars
    |-- layouts
    |   `-- main.handlebars
    `-- partials
        |-- footer.handlebars
        |-- nav.handlebars
        `-- title.handlebars

and here is part of the index.js file

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, './views'));
app.engine('handlebars', expressHandlebars({
    defaultLayout: 'main'
}));
app.set('view engine', 'handlebars');

While I was making this issue, I ran into another error
Error: Failed to lookup view "index" in views directory "/views"
Which contains no reference back to express-handlebars but only mentions express in the stack.

I'm assuming this is just a simple mistake on my part but it might be worth documenting for people like me who don't quite understand the subtle differences between linux and windows.

[sgnl]

Try using path.resolve instead of path.join and see if it helps.

[kas]

I am also experiencing this issue. I use app.set('views', __dirname + '/views'); but the ENOENT error says it is trying to access project-name/views/layouts/main.handlebars instead of the expected project-name/src/views/layouts/main.handlebars'.

[ndeufemia]

I ran into the same issue, and could solve it by setting the layoutDir and partialsDir option as follows:

app.engine('.hbs', exphbs({
    extname: '.hbs',
    defaultLayout: 'main',
    partialsDir: path.join(__dirname, 'views/partials'),
    layoutsDir: path.join(__dirname, 'views/layouts')
  }));
app.set('view engine', '.hbs');
app.set('views',path.join(__dirname,'views'))

[DmitryMyadzelets]

How to reproduce this issue:

• Make sure you have a layout in the views/layouts directory.
• Run project from a directory different to the app's directory: node path-to-app.

From this discussion it seems that the bug is due to pure default path resolving in express-handlebars.

This issue is fixed by this PR but not published yet.

[erickhora]

For anyone out there who doesn't have an layouts or layout folder and is having the same issue. Try this in the rendering of the page:
res.render('index', {layout: false});

[johnnyodonnell]

Is there a way to set the set the default value of layout to false. I'm hoping to avoid updating all of my render functions from something like:

res.render("index");

to

res.render("index", {layout: false});

[UziTech]

defaultLayout: null should work

[knoxcard]

@johnnyodonnell

app.locals.layout = false

[ahmedatef1610]

const expressHandlebars  = require('express-handlebars');

app.engine('hbs', expressHandlebars({
    defaultLayout: '',
}));

app.set('view engine', 'hbs');
app.set('views', 'views');

[pulkit5ingh]

For anyone out there who doesn't have an layouts or layout folder and is having the same issue. Try this in the rendering of the page:
res.render('index', {layout: false});

Thanks Its Working...

[Alpha4733]

For anyone out there who doesn't have an layouts or layout folder and is having the same issue. Try this in the rendering of the page:
res.render('index', {layout: false});

Thanks Its Working...

For anyone out there who doesn't have an layouts or layout folder and is having the same issue. Try this in the rendering of the page:
res.render('index', {layout: false});

Thanks Its Working...

but what if we have layout but still showing such problem

[muhammadwarisali]

This solved my issue:

app.engine('hbs',handlebars({ 
    layoutsDir: path.join(__dirname,'views','layouts'), 
    defaultLayout: 'main-layout', 
    extname: 'hbs'
}))

[forcetrekker]

I had a silly mistake as:
extName: '.hbs'
instead of
extname: '.hbs'