Jade2react NPM

jade2react

A jade to react compiler, that lets you build complete react components using the jade template language. It supports almost all features of jade and adds some more functionality to make it even easier to build react components.

installation

jade2react is a registered npm module. So you can install it using the following command: npm install jade2react

features

Auto compilation: Just require any .jade file and it gets loaded as JavaScript. Just make sure you have required jade2react first and the module react is available from the jade-file's location.
This module provides also a transform function to autocompile .jade files while bundling them with browserify.

changes from 0.2. to 0.3.

jade2react now supports react 0.14.*
jade2react now exports your component directly, instead of a factory for it

notes

While the render function is auto generated, you also can define javascript, to be added to your component in script. elements on the indentation level 0. exports represents the object that later gets passed to React.createClass(), so if you define functions on it, the will later be available through this. In here, you also can require other JavaScript modules or React components and even other jade files. See example above.

div
    input(type="button" value="Click Me!" onClick=this.click)
script.
    var somemodule = require("somemodule");

    exports.click = function(){
        somemodule.doSomething();
    }

Extends still works! But not only the render function gets extended but the whole component. All properties that are defined in the exports object in the derived component automatically get mixed into the current exports object. So, the following example will still work:

base.jade

div
    block content
script.
    exports.click = function(){
        alert("Clicked!")
    }

component.jade

extends ./base.jade
append content
    div(onClick=this.click)

Since React allows you to pass children to a component, I also made this available. Just add an children element where you want your children to be rendered:

list.jade

.list
    h1 Children following
    children

You then can pass the children like you'd expect:

component.jade

.main
    List
        p Child 1
        p Child 2
script.
    var List = require("list.jade");

Tag contents are always escaped. So h1 hello world will render as h1 hello world and not h1 hello world. This is because in react you set either the full contents of a tag as insecure html, or nothing. So while the above example would be no problem, the following actually would be: