I have the following code in my express app (app.js file):

const express = require(express);

const app = express();



app.set('view engine', 'ejs');



app.get('/', function(req, res) {

    res.render('index');

});



app.listen(8080);

And the following dependencies:

ejs: ^2.6.1,

express: ^4.16.3,

request: ^2.87.0

And this is my folder structure:

myapp

   app.js

   package.json

   views

      index.ejs

   node_modules

      [all node files]

But when I run the app, it shows this error:

Failed to lookup view index.ejs in views directory mylocaldirectory/myapp/views

If it would help here are the other error messages:

  at Function.render (/mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:580:17)

    at ServerResponse.render (/mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:1008:7)

    at //mylocaldirectory/myapp/app.js:11:9

    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)

    at next (/mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)

    at Route.dispatch (/mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)

    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)

    at /mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:281:22

    at Function.process_params (/mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)

    at next (/mylocaldirectory/myapp/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)

I get no error if I just use res.send(SOME TEXT) but when I try to render an ejs file, it doesn't. What's the issue?