Support jade.compileFile

[ForbesLindesay]

I'm planning to land a new API in jade (pugjs/pug#1596) that I think could be really awesome for browserify. It would allow us to support something like:

var jade = require('jade');
var template = jade.compileFile(__dirname + "/template.jade");

document.getElementById("my-thing").innerHTML = template({
    localVar: "value",
    anotherOne: "another value"
});

The benefit of this would be that it is much closer to the sort of code that you'd expect to see on the server side. It would even allow many modules to share client side and server side code while doing jade rendering.

Would you consider supporting this?

[ForbesLindesay]

Oh, and I forgot to mention, we can do options as well:

var jade = require('jade');
var template = jade.compileFile(__dirname + "/template.jade", {pretty: true});

document.getElementById("my-thing").innerHTML = template({
    localVar: "value",
    anotherOne: "another value"
});

[domenic]

Yeah, for sure, as long as it doesn't change the Jadeify user experience.

[kahboom]

@domenic - I would definitely use this feature; I'm compiling templates server-side using something similar to @ForbesLindesay 's example and jadeify to compile partial templates on the client (I'm also using browserify), but if I could share the server-side and client-side code by using Jadeify, it would be very useful.

[a7madgamal]

+1