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, I'd like to write the articles in Markdown and then render it in the view. I saw that Jade allows for this to be done inside the view itself, using filters, but I can't get that working.
To simplify the situation, here's an example of what I'm talking about.
//app.js
res.render("article", {
md : "Hello World!\n\n*Woo*"
});
//article.jade
section
:markdown
#{md}
But, that outputs this: <section><h1>{md}</h1></section>
... it isn't substituting in the variables I've passed to it.
Then I tried this:
//article.jade
section
:markdown
!{md}
And the output is this:
<section><p>Hello World!
*Woo*</p></section>
So, now it's not parsing the markdown!
I have been able to get this to work by parsing the markdown in the app.js
file and then passing the HTML to the view to display, but I dunno, that seems a bit messier.
Is there a way to pass variables into Jade filters?