diff --git a/express/basic/login.ts b/express/basic/login.ts
index abbaee9..7977a2b 100644
--- a/express/basic/login.ts
+++ b/express/basic/login.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { SESSION_COOKIE_NAME } from "../auth/token";
 import { tokenLifetimes } from "../auth/types";
 import { services } from "../services";
 import type { Call, Result, Route } from "../types";
-import { html, redirect, render } from "../util";
+import { html, redirect, render } from "../request/util";
 
 const loginHandler = async (call: Call): Promise<Result> => {
     if (call.method === "GET") {
diff --git a/express/basic/logout.ts b/express/basic/logout.ts
index a1f7dc8..85a3e80 100644
--- a/express/basic/logout.ts
+++ b/express/basic/logout.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { SESSION_COOKIE_NAME } from "../auth/token";
 import { services } from "../services";
 import type { Call, Result, Route } from "../types";
-import { redirect } from "../util";
+import { redirect } from "../request/util";
 
 const logoutHandler = async (call: Call): Promise<Result> => {
     // Extract token from cookie and invalidate the session
diff --git a/express/basic/routes.ts b/express/basic/routes.ts
index d5b1f20..b68b139 100644
--- a/express/basic/routes.ts
+++ b/express/basic/routes.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { DateTime } from "ts-luxon";
 import { services } from "../services";
 import type { Call, Result, Route } from "../types";
-import { html, render } from "../util";
+import { html, render } from "../request/util";
 import { loginRoute } from "./login";
 import { logoutRoute } from "./logout";
 
diff --git a/express/request/util.ts b/express/request/util.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5b445d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/express/request/util.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import { contentTypes } from "../content-types";
+import { executionContext } from "../execution-context";
+import { httpCodes } from "../http-codes";
+import type { RedirectResult, Result } from "../types";
+import {services} from '../services'
+
+import{loadFile}from'../util'
+
+
+type NoUser={
+    [key: string]: unknown;
+} & {
+    user?: never;
+}
+
+const render = async (path: string, ctx?: NoUser): Promise<string> => {
+    const fullPath = `${executionContext.diachron_root}/templates/${path}.html.njk`;
+    const template = await loadFile(fullPath);
+    const user = services.session.getUser();
+    const context = {user, ...ctx}
+    const engine = services.conf.templateEngine()
+    const retval = engine.renderTemplate(template, context);
+
+    return retval;
+};
+
+const html = (payload: string): Result => {
+    const retval: Result = {
+        code: httpCodes.success.OK,
+        result: payload,
+        contentType: contentTypes.text.html,
+    };
+
+    return retval;
+};
+
+const redirect = (location: string): RedirectResult => {
+    return {
+        code: httpCodes.redirection.SeeOther,
+        contentType: contentTypes.text.plain,
+        result: "",
+        redirect: location,
+    };
+};
+
+export { render, html, redirect };
diff --git a/express/services/index.ts b/express/services/index.ts
index 3a9ff69..daed08f 100644
--- a/express/services/index.ts
+++ b/express/services/index.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ import { getCurrentUser } from "../context";
 import { db, migrate, migrationStatus, PostgresAuthStore } from "../database";
 import { getLogs, log } from "../logging";
 import type { MaybeUser } from "../user";
+import nunjucks from 'nunjucks'
+
+const conf = {
+    templateEngine: () => { 
+        return {
+            renderTemplate: (template: string, context: object) => {
+                return nunjucks.renderString(template, context);
+            },
+        }
+    }
+};
 
 const database = {
     db,
@@ -42,6 +53,7 @@ const auth = new AuthService(authStore);
 // Keep this asciibetically sorted
 const services = {
     auth,
+    conf,
     database,
     logging,
     misc,
diff --git a/express/util.ts b/express/util.ts
index c80b7a7..6aba4e9 100644
--- a/express/util.ts
+++ b/express/util.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import nunjucks from "nunjucks";
-import { contentTypes } from "./content-types";
-import { executionContext } from "./execution-context";
-import { httpCodes } from "./http-codes";
-import type { RedirectResult, Result } from "./types";
 
 // FIXME: Handle the error here
 const loadFile = async (path: string): Promise<string> => {
@@ -13,35 +9,8 @@ const loadFile = async (path: string): Promise<string> => {
     return data;
 };
 
-const render = async (path: string, ctx?: object): Promise<string> => {
-    const fullPath = `${executionContext.diachron_root}/templates/${path}.html.njk`;
 
-    const template = await loadFile(fullPath);
 
-    const c = ctx === undefined ? {} : ctx;
-
-    const retval = nunjucks.renderString(template, c);
-
-    return retval;
-};
-
-const html = (payload: string): Result => {
-    const retval: Result = {
-        code: httpCodes.success.OK,
-        result: payload,
-        contentType: contentTypes.text.html,
-    };
-
-    return retval;
-};
-
-const redirect = (location: string): RedirectResult => {
-    return {
-        code: httpCodes.redirection.SeeOther,
-        contentType: contentTypes.text.plain,
-        result: "",
-        redirect: location,
-    };
-};
-
-export { render, html, redirect };
+export {
+    loadFile,
+}