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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is everywhere. From PCs to tablets to smartphones and even TVs, the web is the most ubiquitous application platform and information medium bar. Its becoming a first class citizen in established operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 8 as well as the primary platform of new operating systems such as Google Chrome OS. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" contains over 100 recipes explaining how to utilize modern features and techniques when building websites or web applications. This book will help you to explore the full power of HTML5 - from number rounding to advanced graphics to real-time data binding. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" starts with the display of text and related data. Then you will be guided through graphs and animated visualizations followed by input and input controls. Data serialization, validation and communication with the server as well as modern frameworks with advanced features like automatic data binding and server communication will also be covered in detail.This book covers a fast track into new libraries and features that are part of HTML5!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using layouts and blocks in Jade


To allow us to easily create different templates, Jade supports template inheritance. Jade's template inheritance allows us to define a master layout template, and then replace parts of this template by extending the master layout.

In this recipe we're going to use template inheritance to simulate a complete website, containing a header, a menu, some content, and a footer. The content will be split into two pages.

Getting ready

The client-side version of Jade does not support layouts and blocks. Specifying the template to extend requires access to the filesystem which is not available inside the browser. However, we can precompile the templates using browserify. To do this we're going to write a browserify plugin that registers a handler for the Jade files.

Let's install the prerequisites first. We're going to need nodejs, which can be downloaded from http://nodejs.org/. After installing node from a command prompt, we're going to install browserify Version 1...