https://github.com/mattms/jader

Start a simple server in any directory with Jade templates including CoffeeScript and Stylus.
https://github.com/mattms/jader

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Start a simple server in any directory with Jade templates including CoffeeScript and Stylus.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mattms/jader
• Owner: MattMS
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-04-07T15:19:45.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-06-17T13:51:50.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-17T02:43:02.276Z (22 days ago)
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: http://mattms.github.io/jader/
• Size: 135 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Jade server

Jader lets you start a basic server in any folder.

It compiles

[Jade](http://jade-lang.com/)

templates, with embedded or linked

[CoffeeScript](http://coffeescript.org/),

[Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)

and

[Stylus](https://learnboost.github.io/stylus/)

files.

Please note: This is only intended for aiding development.

If you want to use Jade templates in production, consider using

[Express](http://expressjs.com/).

Alternatively, you can compile Jade files with `jade index.jade` or

[Gulp](http://gulpjs.com/),

but you may not have access to

[filters](http://jade-lang.com/reference/filters/)

this way.

Static files can then be served with [Nginx](http://nginx.org/).

## Usage

You should install Jader globally so that it creates the executable

script for you.

	npm install -g jader

You can then start the server on [localhost](http://localhost/)

in any directory:

	jader

If you need to use a different port to 80, use:

	jader -p 1337

Jader will also serve any other static files in the directory.

## Local variables

You can test the variables in templates by including a ".json" file

along with each ".jade" file.

Any JSON file with the same base-name as the Jade template will be read

and passed into the template as local variables.

### Example

index.jade

	doctype html

	html

		head

			title #{title}

		body

			p #{message}

index.json

	{

		"title": "My Page",

		"message": "It works!"

	}