simple jade

exC-jadeExample.js

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+// Use NPM to install expressjs and jade
+/* npm install express
+ *  In case it breaks, choose an earlier version, like:
+ * npm install [email protected]
+ *
+ * npm install jade
+ */
+
+// Set express module to variable "express"
+var express = require("express");
+
+// Create an "app" variable from the express library
+var app = express();
+
+// Set the app engine to use Jade as the template engine
+app.engine('jade', require('jade').__express);
+app.set('view engine', 'jade')
+
+// Set the template folder to be /public
+//  Should ideally be in dedicated template fold
+app.set('views', __dirname + '/public');
+
+// Add a "route" that leads to the req/res, as seen in Node.js
+app.get("/", function(req, res){
+  res.render("simpleJade", { title: "Page Title", message: "Jade Example"});
+});
+
+// Starts up the server
+var server = app.listen(1337, function() {
+
+});

public/simpleJade.jade

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+html
+  head
+    title!= title
+  body
+    h1!= message