MEAN stack, I don't want to use Jade, how do I just use HTML

Question

I am developing an application with the MEAN stack and am really not liking 'Jade'. I find myself just using an HTML to Jade translator a lot and would just rather write in HTML.

How do I not use Jade in an Express project?

Also, could someone explain what a templating engine is and why one is needed?

Answer 1

You can set:

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

in your config file instead to use just vanilla HTML.

As the previous response, templating engines allow you to set more dynamic content and write less code.