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Express EJS Layout intercept error

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Hello,

I have a strange issue, it seems that each time there is an error in my app (wherever it is), the plugin intercepts the error and print out something really not helping.

It is exactly as this stack overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25433238/express-layouts-error-variable-not-defined

Comment say: express-ejs-layouts drives me crazy with this. If anything goes wrong in the controller or view, it reports that the first variable referenced in the view or layout is undefined. Basically I can never trust the error messages I get when using express-ejs-layouts.

And this is exactly the issue I have. It is really hard to debug the app because of that…

Any idea?

Thanks 😃

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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soarezcommented, Apr 22, 2017

There’s nothing wrong with express-ejs-layouts here.

The reason why you see “title is not defined” as the error is because that is the actual error.

Your app is catching the initial error and then rendering an error page, which also uses the layout, but you’re not defining res.locals.title = 'Some error title' in the error handler.

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soarezcommented, Apr 23, 2017

No worries Regis, happens to all of us 👍

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