deprecating use of templates.setGlobal on server side in favour of passing in api.config into res.locals (still needs work)

src/controllers/api.js

@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@ var pkg = require('./../../package.json'),
 
 var apiController = {};
 
-
-apiController.getConfig = function(req, res, next, callback) {
-	var config = require('../../public/config.json');
+apiController.getConfig = function(req, res, next) {
+	var config = require('./../../public/config.json');
 
 	config.version = pkg.version;
 	config.postDelay = meta.config.postDelay;
@@ -35,23 +34,23 @@ apiController.getConfig = function(req, res, next, callback) {
 	config.environment = process.env.NODE_ENV;
 
 	if (!req.user) {
-		return res.json(200, config);
+		if (res.locals.isAPI) {
+			res.json(200, config);
+		} else {
+			next(null, config);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if(req.user) {
 		user.getSettings(req.user.uid, function(err, settings) {
-			if(err) {
-				return next(err);
-			}
-
 			config.usePagination = settings.usePagination;
 			config.topicsPerPage = settings.topicsPerPage;
 			config.postsPerPage = settings.postsPerPage;
 
-			if (callback) {
-				callback(err, config);
-			} else {
+			if (res.locals.isAPI) {
 				res.json(200, config);
+			} else {
+				next(err, config);
 			}
 		});
 	}

src/middleware/middleware.js

@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ var app,
 	plugins = require('./../plugins'),
 	meta = require('./../meta'),
 	translator = require('./../../public/src/translator'),
-	user = require('./../user');
+	user = require('./../user'),
+
+	controllers = {
+		api: require('./../controllers/api')
+	};
+
 
 middleware.authenticate = function(req, res, next) {
 	if(!req.user) {
@@ -87,6 +92,12 @@ middleware.buildHeader = function(req, res, next) {
 			res.locals.renderHeader = true;
 			next();
 		},
+		function(next) {
+			controllers.api.getConfig(req, res, function(err, config) {
+				res.locals.config = config;
+				next();
+			});
+		},
 		function(next) {
 			// this is slower than the original implementation because the rendered template is not cached
 			// but I didn't bother to fix this because we will deprecate [filter:footer.build] in favour of the widgets system by 0.4x
@@ -158,6 +169,12 @@ middleware.renderHeader = function (options, callback) {
 				'"': '"'
 			};
 
+		for (var key in options.res.locals.config) {
+			if (options.res.locals.config.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
+				templateValues[key] = options.res.locals.config[key];
+			}
+		}
+
 		var uid = '0';
 
 		templateValues.metaTags = defaultMetaTags.concat(options.res.locals.metaTags || []).map(function(tag) {