Question

I want to parse Jade coming from a database. Like from a blog post, where the body is in Jade. Right now I can parse HTML from Jade using:

!= post.body

It works for HTML, but doesn’t for Jade. Is there a way to parse the Jade from an external source?

Answer 1

If you are trying to compile text-string as Jade template (post body from database):

// node.js
// https://github.com/visionmedia/jade/#a5
var jade = require('jade');
var template = 'h1 Hi';
var options = {};

var htmlFunc = jade.compile(template, options);
var locals = {};
var html = htmlFunc(locals);

// now you can pass `html` to your blog post layout.

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You can compile Jade string within a template. That’s odd, but anyway:

h1!= require('jade').compile('span Hi')();