Can't use periods in template names, only hyphens and underscores?

[MarkCancellieri]

If I try to name my default layout to main.view.server.hbs, then I get the following error: Error: ENOENT, open 'C:\Users\Mark\Dropbox\WebstormProjects\NodeApp\app_server\views\layouts\main.view.server'

If I instead name it main-view-server.hbs or main_view_server.hbs, then it works fine. In all three cases, I obviously changed the defaultLayout setting.

Is there any way to get it to work using periods in the filename? I'm trying to maintain a consistent file-naming scheme. If not, it's not a huge issue, but it would be nice to be able to do it. :-)

[ericf]

Is this an issue only with the defaultLayout file not supporting dots in the filename? Or do you have this issue with the view names you pass to res.render()?

I see what's likely causing this issue: https://github.com/ericf/express-handlebars/blob/master/lib/express-handlebars.js#L318-320

Feel free to open a PR to adjust this.

[MarkCancellieri]

I'm still somewhat of a newbie at programming (and with Git/GitHub), so bear with me.

I guess I have two issues then. I tried changing index_view_server.hbs (which worked fine) to index.view.server.hbs (and I changed the view names that are passed to res.render()). It gave me the following error:

Error: Cannot find module 'server'  
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)  
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)  
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)  
    at require (module.js:380:17)  
    at new View (C:\Users\Mark\Dropbox\WebstormProjects\NodeApp\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:50:49)  
    at EventEmitter.app.render (C:\Users\Mark\Dropbox\WebstormProjects\NodeApp\node_modules\express\lib\application.js:509:12)  
    at ServerResponse.res.render (C:\Users\Mark\Dropbox\WebstormProjects\NodeApp\node_modules\express\lib\response.js:904:7)  
    at getHomePage (C:\Users\Mark\Dropbox\WebstormProjects\NodeApp\app_server\controllers\main.controller.server.js:7:7)  
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (C:\Users\Mark\Dropbox\WebstormProjects\NodeApp\node_modules\express\lib\router\layer.js:82:5)  
    at next (C:\Users\Mark\Dropbox\WebstormProjects\NodeApp\node_modules\express\lib\router\route.js:100:13)  

[ericf]

The way this package works, and the way Express works, you'll need to always put the view's file extension (.hbs) in the file paths if you want to use .s in the file names.

So you'll need to do:

res.render('index.view.server.hbs);

And also use defaultLayout: 'main.view.server.hbs' when configuring this package.

[MarkCancellieri]

Oh, okay. Thanks for the help!