No such file or directory

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.

[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});

[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'))