title: Node, Angular, Express and the view engine
body: <p>I recently started using Angular, Node and Express. I have made some working browser-based applications in Angular and am attempting to port them to server applications in Node and Express. (In particular, one will pull data from Twitter and another from Wikidot.) </p>
  
  <p>Since I am using Angular for data injection and templating, I do not want to use another view engine such as EJS or Jade. I want to use the HTML/Angular code that I have already written with as little modification as possible. I'm very confused as to why Express requires me to have a view engine. </p>
  
  <p>What is the simplest way to get this code working as a Node/Express application?</p>