Firebase hosting and Jade-lang templates

[archit...@gmail.com]

Hi, I'm trying to deploy a lightweight node.js static(for now) site on firebase hosting. And came across an issue with the structure I'm using.

I'm using jade templates for use with the application, however when I deploy the site my firebase site claims it can't find an index.html file which is true since there's no any .html file but rather an index.jade file. Is there a solution to this or the only way how to work with the current app would be rewriting all of my code back to .html templates instead of jade?

Thanks for any tips or solutions,

Pavel

[Chris Raynor]

Hi Pavel,

I think you need a compile step before you deploy to Firebase Hosting - Firebase Hosting performs no server-side operations on the files in the directory you upload, so if you only upload an index.jade file, it will literally only serve up an index.jade file.

Assuming this was your firebase.json:

{

  "firebase": "your-firebase-app",

  "public": "public"

  ...

}

You could try `jade public --out dist` before deploying, which will compile the templates into a 'dist' folder. If you change your firebase.json to:

{

  "firebase": "your-firebase-app",

  "public": "dist"

  ...

}

Then you can run `firebase deploy` and you should see the content you expect

Hope that helps

Chris 

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[archit...@gmail.com]

Thanks! helps a lot, however this outputs jade files into plain html, does that mean I need to change the template engine in the app itself to use html templates instead of jade engine? Seems like the only way from what I've read so far.

Thanks for help!

Pavel