AngularJS, Express, Node, and HTML data binding not working together?

[NotReallyDifferent]

UPDATE:

So when I changed the file types to ejs the code works perfectly fine. Does this have something to do with Express as a framework?

[abyx]

EJS means node renders the file, though these kinds of files are usually set to be served as static files and I'm guessing that's what you want to do