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Web Development with Jade
Knowing Jade makes life simpler and more productive for web developers, and this book will teach you the language concisely and thoroughly using lots of practical examples and best practices for a solid grounding.
This is a step-by step, tutorial-based book which will enable web developers to explore the functionalities of Jade and learn how to use it to write certain functions and processes for web development. This book is for web developers with at least a basic understanding of HTML and JavaScript. It will enable you to write an easier form of language that then compiles into HTML.
What you will learn
Write cleaner, indentationbased markup
Use logical statements to format data for display on the Web
Avoid repetition by eliminating redundant operations
Divide your templates into logical sections with blocks
Avoid common organizational pitfalls when designing Jadebased projects
Apply shorthand for brevity
Utilize Jade for clientside templates
Employ techniques like filters to quickly mockup web pages in higher level languages like stylus or coffeescript