Advantages of JADE Template Engine in 2015
Comparing JavaScript Templating Engines: Jade, Mustache:
There is dozen of template engine available with option such as Vanilla PHP, Smarty, Twig (Zend Framework, Yii, Cakephp, Drupal), Blade (laravel php framework default template engine), Haml for Ruby / Ruby on Rails. Jade is specially designed for the server side templating in Node.js but it can be used in many other environments also. It’s used to produce XML documents like (HTML, RSS etc.), so we can’t use it to create the plain text like HTML/CSS other documents. Jade Template Engine is used to make the templating more beautiful and more meaningful with the help of description and their layout. So, what are the advantages we can take from the Jade we will try to find out. major in that which are listed below:
1. Re-usable Function:
You can compile your template into the reusable function which can be run on server or client side both. If you want to send the same template again then you just have to write some line of code of re-usable function and then you have to just run the template in that function and then you can set the different data sets in that and you can send it for the rendering demand.
2. Template inheritance:
Jade have great support towards the Template inheritance. It means that it helps in managing templates that resembles object oriented programming techniques. With this you can inherit the contents of one template into another same like as class. Template inheritance keeps the template management minimal and efficient so we can improve quality of the template on the both sides.
3. Template Productivity:
As Jade template engine comes with the many handling modules so final result output comes in a great way in look and feel. Problems like output encoding, iterating conditions and error handling comes in Jade so it helps in a good productivity of the templates than other templating engines.
4. Code Organization:
The presentation is the important thing in any field, if your presentation is in the nice way then it will be clearly understandable by anyone but if your presentation is not good then no can understand it. It will work as miserable. Jade gives the nice way for the data manipulation and their representation. By this templates you can easily understand what is data and which part is for presentation. So, it also helps the server side scriptor also to client.
5. Supported with many technologies:
You can implement the Jade in the language of your project which you making. Jade Template Engine can be implemented with the PHP, scala, ruby, python and java etc. languages so with such a wide language support everyone want to use Jade for the template presentation and its data manipulation.
6. No closing tags:
Jade is most famous for the self closing tags which other languages does not include, Means tags such as img, meta, link explicitly self close a tag by simply appending the / character. It is the most famous part of the Jade which people in the technological world liking it and most appreciable thing in the market.
foo/foo(bar='baz')//*----Output----*/<foo/><foo bar="baz"/>
7. Master Template:
As the name Says “Master” it means that there will be one master template which will come on the every pages. You can create the master layout for your webpage and include different blocks of the content in the body for the individual section or part particular pages.
