Node says Jade has no method “renderFile”, why?

Question

I installed jade (npm install jade) and went over to their github page to grab some examples. This is what I wanted to execute:

code.jade:

- var titl         


        

Answer 1

I recently came across the same issue. In the Alex Young tutorial I was following he was using jade.renderFile(). Similar to your case I was getting the same method not found message. After searching around I found that he had updated the function in a later commit. In this case he had created a custom function (renderJadeFile) as a "drop in" replacement for the jade.renderFile() function (See following code snippet).

Hope this helps others looking for a solution to this problem.

// Replacement function for jade.renderFile.
function renderJadeFile(template, options) {
  var fn = jade.compile(template, options);
  return fn(options.locals);
}

emails = {
  send: function(template, mailOptions, templateOptions) {
    mailOptions.to = mailOptions.to;
    // jade.renderFile(path.join(__dirname, 'views', 'mailer', template), templateOptions, function(err, text) {
    renderJadeFile(path.join(__dirname, 'views', 'mailer', template), templateOptions, function(err, text) {
      // Add the rendered Jade template to the mailOptions
      mailOptions.body = text;

      // CODE SHORTENED FOR BREVETIY
  },

  sendWelcome: function(user) {
    this.send('welcome.jade', {
        to: user.email,
        subject: 'Welcome to Nodepad'
      },
      { locals: {
        user: user
      }
    });
  }
};