grunt to build dynamic jade pages

Question

I want to use grunt to build my node.js project (based on Kraken.js, but I've replaced dust with jade). I've installed grunt-contrib-jade. For jade files that contain no server side state this all works nicely and I get the HTML files output. However, where I have .jade files that contain logic and render server-side state it all goes wrong. For example, if I have h1 #{x.y} in my file the grunt output is cannot read property y of undefined. This makes complete sense as x is only defined at runtime.

So I'm now wondering do I just ignore my jade files in the grunt build and let the server process them all at runtime, or is there some alternative that I'm missing to 'pre-process' my .jade files to speed up execution?

Answer 1

Quoting an answer of mine (Would it benefit to pre-compile jade templates):

When Jade compiles the template, the template is cached. In production environment if you warm up the cache, then there is no need to pre-compile template. Even if you don't, the template will be cached after its first compilation.

In short: Compiling Jade template is useless. You'd better remove grunt-contrib-jade.