I'm having the most bizarre issue with Express's res.sendFile function. The following is the code in my index.js:

app.get('/', function(req, res){
    var path = __dirname + '/views/index.ejs';
    res.sendFile(path);
});

Nothing plicated, but when navigating to localhost the browser downloads the HTML instead of displaying it.

I'm having the most bizarre issue with Express's res.sendFile function. The following is the code in my index.js:

app.get('/', function(req, res){
    var path = __dirname + '/views/index.ejs';
    res.sendFile(path);
});

Nothing plicated, but when navigating to localhost the browser downloads the HTML instead of displaying it.

• javascript
• node.js
• express

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if you want to render just use the express utility function

app.get("/", function(req, res) {
    res.render(__dirname + "/views/index.ejs");
});

I don't know if this is an expressRouter-only thing but I got around this by declaring get functions on an expressRouter, getting the main app to use this router, and then, most importantly, using res.render as opposed to res.sendFile.

var router = express.Router();

router.get('/', function(req, res){
   res.render(__dirname + '/views/index.ejs');
});