Jade is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for node.
- high performance parser
- great readability
- code is escaped by default for security
- contextual error reporting at compile & run time
- executable for compiling jade templates via the command line
- formatted output option
- html 5 mode (using the !!! 5 doctype)
- optional memory caching
- combine dynamic and static tag classes
- supports Express JS
- transparent iteration over objects, arrays, and even non-enumerables via
- each - no tag prefix
- filters
- :sass must have sass.js installed
- :less must have less.js installed
- :markdown must have markdown-js installed or node-discount
- :cdata
- :javascript
- TextMate Bundle
- Screencasts
via tarball or git:
make install
via npm:
npm install jade
var jade = require('jade');
// Render a string
jade.render('string of jade', { options: 'here' });
// Render a file
jade.renderFile('path/to/some.jade', { options: 'here' }, function(err, html){
// options are optional,
// the callback can be the second arg
});
scopeEvaluation scope (this)localsLocal variable objectfilenameUsed in exceptions, and required bycacheprettyOutput formatted HTMLcacheCache intermediate JavaScript in memory keyed byfilenamedebugOutputs tokens and function body generatedcompilerCompiler to replace jade's default
CRLF and CR are converted to LF before parsing.
Jade is indentation based, however currently only supports a 2 space indent. We may implement tab support in the future, until then use spaces, so make sure soft tabs are enabled in your editor.
A tag is simply a leading word:
html
for example is converted to <html></html>
tags can also have ids:
div#container
which would render <div id="container"></div>
how about some classes?
div.user-details
renders <div class="user-details"></div>
multiple classes? and an id? sure:
div#foo.bar.baz
renders <div id="foo" class="bar baz"></div>
div div div sure is annoying, how about:
#foo
.bar
which is syntactic sugar for what we have already been doing, and outputs:
`<div id="foo"></div><div class="bar"></div>`
Simply place some content after the tag:
p wahoo!
renders <p>wahoo!</p>.
well cool, but how about large bodies of text:
p
| foo bar baz
| rawr rawr
| super cool
| go jade go
renders <p>foo bar baz rawr.....</p>
interpolation? yup! both types of text can utilize interpolation,
if we passed { locals: { name: 'tj', email: '[email protected]' }} to render()
we can do the following:
#user #{name} <#{email}>
outputs <div id="user">tj <[email protected]></div>
Actually want #{} for some reason? escape it!
p \#{something}
now we have <p>#{something}</p>
Single line comments currently look the same as JavaScript comments, aka "//" and must be placed on their own line:
// just some paragraphs
p foo
p bar
would output
<!-- just some paragraphs -->
<p>foo</p>
<p>bar</p>
Jade also supports unbuffered comments, by simply adding a hyphen:
//- will not output within markup
p foo
p bar
outputting
<p>foo</p>
<p>bar</p>
ul
li one
li two
li three
Fucked up your whitespace? no worries, jade's error reporting should help you out. Jade instruments the compiled JavaScript to provide meaningful context for runtime exceptions.
ul
li one
li two
Error: /Users/tj/Projects/jade/examples/layout.jade:2
1. 'ul'
2. ' li one'
Invalid indentation, got 2 expected 1.
Note: Trailing are generated on EOS (end-of-source) if not present.
Jade currently supports '(' and ')' as attribute delimiters.
a(href='/login', title='View login page') Login
Alternatively we may use the colon to separate pairs:
a(href: '/login', title: 'View login page') Login
Boolean attributes are also supported:
input(type="checkbox", checked)
Boolean attributes with code will only output the attribute when true:
input(type="checkbox", checked: someValue)
Note: Leading / trailing whitespace is ignore for attr pairs.
To add a doctype simply use !!! followed by an optional value:
!!!
Will output the transitional doctype, however:
!!! 5
Will output html 5's doctype. Below are the doctypes defined by default, which can easily be extended: var doctypes = exports.doctypes = { '5': '', 'xml': '', 'default': '', 'transitional': '', 'strict': '', 'frameset': '', '1.1': '', 'basic': '', 'mobile': '' };
To alter the default simply change:
jade.doctypes.default = 'whatever you want';
Filters are prefixed with :, for example :markdown and
pass the following block of text to an arbitrary function for processing. View the features
at the top of this document for available filters.
body
:markdown
| Woah! jade _and_ markdown, very **cool**
| we can even link to [stuff](http://google.com)
Renders:
<body><p>Woah! jade <em>and</em> markdown, very <strong>cool</strong> we can even link to <a href="http://google.com">stuff</a></p></body>
Jade currently supports three classifications of executable code. The first
is prefixed by -, and is not buffered:
- var foo = 'bar';
This can be used for conditionals, or iteration:
- for (var key in obj)
p= obj[key]
Due to Jade's buffering techniques the following is valid as well:
- if (foo)
ul
li yay
li foo
li worked
- else
p shit! didnt work
Hell, even verbose iteration:
- if (items.length)
ul
- items.forEach(function(item){
li= item
- })
Anything you want!
Next up we have escaped buffered code, which is used to
buffer a return value, which is prefixed by =:
- var foo = 'bar'
= foo
h1= foo
Which outputs bar<h1>bar<h1/>. Code buffered by = is escaped
by default for security, however to output unescaped return values
you may use !=:
p!= aVarContainingMoreHTML
The on exception made in terms of allowing "vanilla" JavaScript, is
the - each token. This takes the form of:
- each VAL[, KEY] in OBJ
An example iterating over an array:
- var items = ["one", "two", "three"]
- each item in items
li= item
outputs:
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<li>three</li>
iterating an object's keys and values:
- var obj = { foo: 'bar' }
- each val, key in obj
li #{key}: #{val}
would output <li>foo: bar</li>
You can also nest these!
- each user in users
- each role in user.roles
li= role
Output html to stdout:
jade examples/*.jade --pipe
Generate examples/*.html:
jade examples/*.jade
Pass options:
jade examples/layout.jade --options '{ locals: { title: "foo" }}'
Usage info:
�Usage: jade [options] <path ...>
�Options:
-o, --options STR JavaScript options object passed
-p, --pipe Output to stdout instead of PATH.html
-h, --help Output help information