Jade Client Loader

Webpack loader that compiles jade to a javascript template

Note: This project is in early development, and versioning is a little different. Read this for more details.

Why should you care?

This loader is a very simple version of the standard webpack jade loader. It does not hack apart the compiler in order to add the ability to use webpack's require internally.

At the moment, it loads up a file according to the test, compiles it as a client template, tracks jade dependencies, and exposes it as an export.

Installation

npm i jade-client-loader -S

Usage

This loader does not accept any options via query, because all query options are stringified, which means that functions cannot be passed. However, it's quite a common use-case to pass a function to jade as a local, and unfortunately functions cannot be stringified. Also querystrings are ugly.

So instead, this loader pulls settings directly from the webpack options, from the jade key. If you were to set up a simple webpack project using this loader, it would look something like this:

// webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
  module: {
    loaders: [
      { test: /\.jade$/, loader: 'jade-client' }
    ]
  },
  jade: { pretty: false }
}

To use a template, you can require it in your primary js file from webpack, like this:

var tpl = require('./test_template.jade')

console.log(tpl({ foo: 'bar' }))

Once you execute the required function, it will return your html, and you can use this as you wish!

License & Contributing

• Details on the license can be found here
• Details on running tests and contributing can be found here