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Web Development with Jade

Web Development with Jade

By : Sean Lang
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Web Development with Jade
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Web Development with Jade
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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What is Jade?
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What is Jade?
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Markup like poetry
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Compiling Jade
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Summary
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Basic Syntax
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Basic Syntax
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Significance of whitespace
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Tags
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Inline HTML
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Attributes
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Shorthands
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Comments
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Block expansion
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Doctypes
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Summary
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Feeding Data into Templates
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Feeding Data into Templates
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Syntax
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Defining variables
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Interpolation everywhere!
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Using variables without interpolation
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Escaping
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Sending the variables to the compiler
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Summary
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Logic in Templates
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Logic in Templates
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Adding logic with JavaScript
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Built-in logical operators
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A warning about interpolation
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Summary
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Filters
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Filters
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The full list
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Examples
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Passing arguments
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Summary
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Mixins
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Mixins
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Syntax and mechanics
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Another warning about interpolation
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The arguments object
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Summary
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Template Inheritance
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Template Inheritance
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Blocks
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Extends
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Includes
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Summary
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Organizing Jade Projects
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Organizing Jade Projects
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General best practices
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Summary
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A Closing Note – Contributing Back to Jade
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A Closing Note – Contributing Back to Jade
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Index
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Index

Defining variables

First, we're going to start with learning how to define variables inside a template. This is common practice when you are looking to make redundant aspects of a template easy to change. So, the following is the syntax for defining a variable:

- var some_text = "Hello World";

If you've worked with JavaScript, this should look very familiar because it is JS. In fact, any JS can be executed in a template, it just needs a dash and a space in front of it.

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