A template renderer for express.js that processes plain vanilla HTML and has the option to strip newlines.

html_template.js

// Usage:
// express_app.register('html', htmlRenderer({stripNewlines: true}));
// ...
// express_app.get('/plain', function(req, res){
//   res.render('./path_to_html_file');
// })

function htmlRenderer(opt){
	var stripNewlines = opt && opt.stripNewlines;
	
	return {
		compile: function(str, view_options){
			if(stripNewlines) str = str.replace(/[\n\r]+/, ' ');
			return function(locals){
				return str;
			}
		}
	}
}