How to use multiple layout within a SailsJS app?

Question

My Sails.js application have separate frontend and admin layout. My view engine is ejs.

How do I use separate layouts for frontend

Answer 1

Sorry for spamming your question but i need a similar solution for my app. It would be wonderful to define layouts in routes.js so for example /admin/* would use one layout, and eg. /app/* would use the other, etc. Because it's a pita do dive into controllers and overspam them with static layout paths. I tried this concept but it seems to be working only if I also define a controller in the routes.js config file eg:

module.exports.routes = {

   '/admin/*' : {
      controller: 'AdminController',
      action: 'index',
      locals: {
         layout: 'admin/layout'
      }
   }
};

This does work, but is routing all actions for admin into the same controller, which is of course wrong. If I omit the controller part, that concept is always using the default view/layout.ejs and the local is not set:

module.exports.routes = {

   '/admin/*' : {
      locals: {
         layout: 'admin/layout'
      }
   }
};

This doesn't work but it would be ideal to get it that way.