Jade is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for node. For discussion join the Google Group.

Jade-CoffeeScript is a fork of TJ's Jade project that adds the following features:

• CoffeeScript Jade Dialect - when the rest of your client code is Coffee flavored, it's tedious and annoying to hit JavaScript quirks inside Jade templates.
• Inline Templates - an elegant way to keep templates and code in the same file
• Ruby on Rails Integration

To understand what Jade is, see jade-lang.com or the syntax docs. This document will avoid general descriptions of the Jade language and focus on deltas to the original project.

$ npm install jade

var jade = require('jade');

// Compile a function
var fn = jade.compile('string of jade', options);
fn(locals);

• self Use a self namespace to hold the locals (false by default)
• locals Local variable object
• filename Used in exceptions, and required when using includes
• debug Outputs tokens and function body generated
• compiler Compiler to replace jade's default
• compileDebug When false no debug instrumentation is compiled
• pretty Add pretty-indentation whitespace to output (false by default)

Usage: jade [options] [dir|file ...]

Options:

  -h, --help         output usage information
  -V, --version      output the version number
  -o, --obj <str>    javascript options object
  -O, --out <dir>    output the compiled html to <dir>
  -p, --path <path>  filename used to resolve includes
  -P, --pretty       compile pretty html output
  -c, --client       compile function for client-side runtime.js
  -D, --no-debug     compile without debugging (smaller functions)
  -w, --watch        watch files for changes and automatically re-render

Examples:

  # translate jade the templates dir
  $ jade templates

  # create {foo,bar}.html
  $ jade {foo,bar}.jade

  # jade over stdio
  $ jade < my.jade > my.html

  # jade over stdio
  $ echo "h1 Jade!" | jade

  # foo, bar dirs rendering to /tmp
  $ jade foo bar --out /tmp 

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