Pass a variable when using pug extends

Question

I have a settings page called posting.pug and it extends a pug settingsLayout template. Where are several settings pages in my app. And I want to pass a variable posting=1 to the settingsLayout page to show a user that the posting page is the current.

How should I pass a variable to the template I extend?

I tried to set a variable before extends. That's not allowed.

I tried passing it as an attribute -- doesn't work.

Answer 1

You can try like this

settingsLayout.pug

block variables    

doctype html
html
  head
  body
    // Try to call variable here
    h1 posting

posting.pug

extends settingsLayout

block variables
  - var posting = 1

I hope this work!