Jade/Pug if else condition usage

Question

I\'m sending a date to a .jade file from my .js file using Node.js. When the #{date} field is false, it executes the else and print

Answer 1

If date is false, do you want to output the string 'man'? If yes, your if and else statements are the wrong way around...

How about:

if date
  = date
else
  | man

or even:

| #{date ? date : 'man'}

or simply:

| #{date || 'man'}