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Templating engines are also referred to as view engines by Express.

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There are two parts to setting up a templating engine in Express.

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First, set the views value to specify the folder where the templates will be stored.

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Second, set the view engine value to specify the template library.

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// This defaults to the 'views' folder in the project root directory.\napp.set("views", path.join(__dirname, "views"))\n\n// setting up the 'pug' templating engine\napp.set("view engine", "pug")
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