Question

Using Express.js, I’d like to render a partial-view from a Jade template to a variable.

Usually, you render a partial-view directly to the response object:

response.partial('templatePath', {a:1, b:2, c:3})

However, since I’m inside a Socket.io server event, I don’t have the “response” object.

Is there an elegant way to render a Jade partial-view to a variable without using the response object?

Answer 1

You can manually compile the Jade template.

var jade = require('jade');
var template = require('fs').readFileSync(pathToTemplate, 'utf8');
var jadeFn = jade.compile(template, { filename: pathToTemplate, pretty: true });
var renderedTemplate = jadeFn({data: 1, hello: 'world'});