Question

I wonder if there is an option I missed in Visual Studio 2013 to get the Jade syntax highlighting to work?

There is a pretty good integration of Node.js, Express and Jade in Visual Studio 2013, but it seems it lacks a proper syntax highlighting.
In that WebMatrix Tool of Microsoft the Jade syntax works pretty well and I dont't get because of what that features is missing in VS 2013. Maybe I made a mistake at some point of installation, project creating, missed an option or something like that.

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Solution

In the new NTVS beta version I found this today and it works great:

NTVS supports the following:

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Jade syntax highlighting -- New for Beta  
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For a download and more information see the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio project site on CodePlex.

OTHER TIPS

I looked into it a couple of months ago and didn't find any resources for handling Jade better in Visual Studio at the time and there may not currently be any solution short of writing the tools you need yourself.

With that said, I did ask one of the developers behind a popular build extension for using languages like LESS or CoffeeScript in Visual Studio if he's considered adding Jade support and his answer was that they're working on it. I unfortunately have no idea what the timeline would be.

Sorry I don't have a better answer for you, I'm hoping for a solution as well. In the meantime I found a combination of Visual Studio, Sublime Text and Prepros works well enough for now.

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