How can I include/extend a jade file from the root of my template directory in express?

Question

Given a sample structure:

/layout.jade
/really/deep/dir/inside/my/template/folder/example.jade

Is there any way I can extend layout.jade in example.jade without having to keep track of the number of parent directories?

This works as intended tho:

extends ../../../..etc../../../layout

But it would be preferable to do something like:

extends /layout

Or even alias/hardlink and use it like:

extends layout

Also assuming somebody knows a solution, can it also be applied to include?

Answer 1

There is a change that was introduced in this particular commit.

Basically, if the first character found in the include statement is a forward slash and basedir is defined, it will look for the template in that path.

You must first setup Jade:

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.locals.basedir = app.get('views');

Then, from any template, no matter how deeply nested, you can do:

include /layout