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JavaScript Express Basics (2015) Using Templates with Express Scaffolding Your Project’s Templates

Posted by Martin Lindsey
Martin Lindsey
11,273 Points

Positioning of "extends ./layout.jade" and "block content"

Why did Houston add "extends ./layout.jade" and "block content" together at the top of the post.jade file and separately at the beginning and end of the index.jade file? Could he have done the same for both or switched them around for each?

Just curious to know if it matters or not and why?

1 Answer

srikarvedantam
srikarvedantam
8,369 Points
srikarvedantam
srikarvedantam
8,369 Points

Taking a closer look, we may find that Huston was adding "block content" keywords at the end of the "layout.jade" file rather than at the end of the "index.jade" file (notice the highlighted file, layout.jade, that he was using in the Sublime text editor at that time). Further, it will only work when both the following lines are placed at the top of "index.jade" and "post.jade" files as below:

extends ./layout.jade
block content