Passing raw Markdown text to Jade

Question

I\'m playing around with my first Node.js Express application, and as every programmer knows, the first thing you should build when testing out a new framework is a blog! Anyway

Answer 1

I don't think jade can do this out of the box. One way to accomplish it that might feel slightly cleaner than pre-rendering the markdown is to create a helper function called markdown that takes a markdown string and returns HTML. Then you could do something like

section
    != markdown(md)

The markdown function should be included in the locals data when you render the jade template and can directly use a markdown library to convert the markdown syntax to HTML.