slim-jade

When you use jade for client side (like with angular), you don't always need dynamic features or fancy features that jade provided. This is where slim-jade comes in. If you use gulp, you can use gulp-slim-jade.

installation:

• for python sudo pip install jade
• for nodejs npm install slim-jade

performance: 500~1500 times faster than jadejs/jade(1.11.0) in my project around 175 jade files (~250kB)

read: 29.708ms
slim-jade: 2.348ms
jadejs/jade: 3190.300ms

supported syntax:

• #id
• .a.b.c
• tag
• above3(a,b="a",c=1)
• above4 text
• | text
• = 'text'
• // jade comments and <!-- html --> comments are ignored
• experimental '.' block support, Eg. script.
• < one liner html tags will keep as is
• extra: /// will convert to html comments <!--abcd-->

unsupported syntax:

• does not support stacked tags a: b: c. if program encounter ':', the whole program will exit.

limitations:

• only support tab indent, and it is upto 16 levels
• tag name must be less than 32 chars
• output html must be less than 100k
• class attr value cannot be more than 256 chars
• must be valid jade, with only mentioned features

if you break the limit, it will segfault or may crash your computer. Use at your own risk.