Express with EJS/ETA redirect errors(302)?

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I've been using EJS with Express in my app to do some basic SSR(show login button or profile button depending on login status and similar things). It worked fine but when I did some benchmarkes it turned out it was severely limiting the rate of requests per second of the server. This is why I decided I would replace it with ETA. It is supposed to have almost identical syntax and be substantially quicker at doing the same thing.

After I did that I encountered a strange 302("The page isn’t redirecting properly") redirect error in the browser:

I have checked NodeJs but it doesn't throw any errors or warnings. It starts up and runs normally. I tried undoing the changes, reinstalling EJS and renaming the templates to EJS again but I still get the issue. It doesn't want to render even if it just contains pure HTML so I don't think it's a problem with the .eta files.

(Req.user returns if user is logged in (from authController.isLoggedIn))

// App.js (server init)

    const express = require('express');
    const app = express();
    require('dotenv').config();
    const port = process.env.port;
    const expressValidator = require('express-validator');
    const eta = require("eta");
    
    // Parsing
    app.use(express.json({ limit: '10kb'}));
    app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
    app.use(expressValidator());
    
    // Set views
    app.engine("eta", eta.renderFile); //doesn't work regardless if it's on or off
    app.set('views', './sites/');
    app.set("view engine", "eta");
    app.set('trust proxy', 1);
    
    // Define routes
    app.use('/', require('./routes/sites'));
    app.use('/auth', require('./routes/auth'));
    app.use('/', express.static('./public', { maxAge: 31557600, }));
    app.use('/act/:topic/:id', express.static('./public', { maxAge: 31557600 }));
   
    
    // Error handler (for now)
    app.use((req, res, next) => {
        const err = new Error("Not found");
        err.status = 404;
        next(err);
    });
    app.use((err, req, res, next) => {
        if(err.status == 404) {
            res.status(err.status);
            req.flash("flash", '404 page not found.');
            return res.redirect('back');
        } else {
            res.status(500);
            req.flash("flash", 'A server error has occurred.');
            return res.redirect('back');
        }
    });
    
    // Listen on 3306
    app.listen(port, process.env.host, () => console.log(`Server started on port ${port}.`));

// Sites.js (routes)

const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
const authController = require('../controllers/auth');
const dotenv = require('dotenv');
dotenv.config({ path: './.env'});
router.use(express.json());

router.get('/robots.txt', (req, res) => {
  res.header('Content-Type', 'text/html');
  res.render('robots')
});
router.get('/about', authController.isLoggedIn, (req, res) => {
  res.render('about', {
    user: req.user, message: 'About us'
  });
});

// I've also tried this
router.get('/', authController.isLoggedIn, (req, res, next) => {
  var aaa = eta.renderFile('index', {
    user: req.user, message: 'Enjoy your visit'
  });
  res.send(aaa);
});


module.exports = router;

// About.eta (I have also tried if it would work without layout or with include but it didn't)



    
        Scrooc: About us

        <% layout("./modules/link") %>
    
    

        <% layout("./modules/head") %>

Express with EJS/ETA redirect errors(302)?

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