Command Line

Installation

via npm:

$ npm install jade --global

Usage

$ jade [options] [dir|file ...]

Options

-h, --help         output usage information
-V, --version      output the version number
-O, --obj <str>    javascript options object
-o, --out <dir>    output the compiled html to <dir>
-p, --path <path>  filename used to resolve includes
-P, --pretty       compile pretty html output
-c, --client       compile function for client-side runtime.js
-D, --no-debug     compile without debugging (smaller functions)
-w, --watch        watch files for changes and automatically re-render
--doctype          specify the doctype if it is not already specified by the template

Examples

Translate jade the templates dir:

$ jade templates

Create {foo,bar}.html

$ jade {foo,bar}.jade

Jade over stdio

$ jade < my.jade > my.html

Jade over stdio

$ echo "h1 Jade!" | jade

foo, bar dirs rendering to /tmp

$ jade foo bar --out /tmp