Building a Simple Web App - Step 3

Create A Layout - layout.jade in Views folder

html
  head
  title #{title}
  body    
    !{body}
    div#myDiv Hello from layout

Alter index.jade

h1 Hello World From index.jade

Create static file - styles.css

#myDiv {
  font-size: 18px;
  color: red;
}

Link to css file in layout.jade

link(href='/css/styles.css', rel='stylesheet', type='text/css')

Tell express to serve static files

app.configure(function() {
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/static'));
});