Jade template, how to pass concrete object to pages?

Question

I have a jade template for my node.js project. I would like to send an object to the jade template and pass it to a function inside the page (to render something).

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Answer 1

For this to work, you need to stringify on the server.

res.render(__dirname + '/pages/viz.jade', {
    vizJson: JSON.stringify(newJson),
});

Then, as you mentioned, parse the JSON on the client.

script
    sunburst(JSON.parse(#{vizJson}))

Hope that helps!