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Express Web Application Development
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Express Web Application Development

by Hage Yaaapa
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
236 pages
4h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5. The Jade Templating Language

Jade is the recommended template engine for Express. It comes with an intuitive language to create templates and views for Express apps. Jade, the template engine has many aspects to it, but in this chapter we will focus only on its templating capabilities.

You will learn the following in this chapter:

  • How to create HTML tags using Jade
  • How to use filters such as Markdown with Jade
  • How to modularize views
  • How to use the programming capabilities of Jade

What is Jade?

Jade, the templating language has a very intuitive syntax. You will most likely understand 70 percent of how Jade works just by looking at an example. In fact, the best way to start learning Jade is to look at a moderately complex Jade example and try ...

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