jadeify

Browserify middleware for browser-side jade templates.

usage

For some expresso/connect/etc application app:

var browserify = require('browserify');
var jadeify = require('jadeify');

var bundle = browserify()
    .use(jadeify(__dirname + '/views'))
    .addEntry(__dirname + '/main.js')
;
app.use(bundle);

Then in your browser-side main.js entry point you can use jadeify():

var $ = require('jquery');
var jadeify = require('jadeify');

var msg = jadeify('msg.jade', {
    title : 'foo',
    body : 'bar baz quux'
}).appendTo($('#messages'));

See here for a more complete example.

server-side methods

jadeify(viewdir, opts or extension)

Use templates from viewdir or opts.views with file extension extension or opts.extension or otherwise any file.

The options are passed along to fileify.

One thing you might want to pass along to fileify is the watch parameter to update the jadeified view files when they change on disk without restarting the server.

browser-side methods

jadeify(templateFile, vars={})

Render templateFile with vars local variables.

The vars parameter undergoes a deep traversal to find HTMLElement and jquery handles in order to stringify their outerHTMLs so you can just !{varname} to insert elements into a template.

Returns an HTML DOM element wrapped with jquery.

template methods

These methods are available to your template logic.

$ (jquery handle)

The jquery function is passed in as $.

installation

With npm, do:

npm install jadeify

license

MIT/X11