Passing data from router to Jade template

Question

I have Jade template:

template(name="mainLayout")
  h1= data
  h3 Meteor.js Example

When I try to pass data to template in router:

Router.route "/", () ->
  @render "index", data: "My Awesome Page"

This is not working. How to pass the data into template?

Answer 1

data passed in the router is this in the jade.

So instead of:

h1= data

Try:

h1= this

If you want to pass more data, you can do like this:

template(name="mainLayout")
  h1= this.data1
  h2= this.data2
  // or shorted, just ignore the this.
  h1= data1
  h2= data2
  h3 Meteor.js Example

Router.route "/", () ->
  @render "index", data: { data1: "My Awesome Page", data2: "Foobar" }