GUguzik·Mar 13, 2026Submission
1 points · Open discussionpugjs
pug
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pugjs / pug
pug
Pug – robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for Node.js
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Pug – robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for Node.js
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Observed mentions: 2011-01-16 14:40:02 UTC to 2026-03-13 21:14:42 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
36 sourcesFun, nice work. Side comment, but it feels like this would make a nice match with Jade/Pug[0] HTML syntax for a clean front end experience
[0] https://github.com/pugjs/pug?tab=readme-ov-file#syntax
In I'm working on implementing a programming language all my ownMarkdown as specified lets you break out HTML whenever you want, and even understands the difference between inline and block tags. Most places where you can use markdown support this.
Personally I’m also a fan of https://github.com/pugjs/pug , which is an alternate syntax for HTML that I find easier to work with when I need the full power of HTML but don’t want a thicket of angle brackets.
In Modern LaTeXPug – robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for Node.js
2 points · Open discussionAgree, but isn't the project very low in activity?
https://github.com/pugjs/pug/activity
That is not necessarily a bad thing, sometime stability is what matters the most. But here the last commit was removal of a security and bugs branch...
In Svelte5: A Less Favorable Vue3I wonder if this is due to some template engines looking minimalist like that. I think maybe Pug?
https://github.com/pugjs/pug?tab=readme-ov-file#syntax
It is whitespace sensitive though, but essentially looks like that. I doubt this is the only unique template engine like this though.
In Minifying HTML for GPT-4o: Remove all the HTML tagsThe right way to start is with HTML and motherfucking website.
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Really. At this point this is what websites should strive to be. Text on the screen.
Everything about HTML can be learned from the MDN documentation:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML
It can be written by hand but that's way too verbose. Pug is a great solution to that problem: it's just HTML but much less verbose. I integrated it with GitHub Pages so pug sources get compiled to HTML and published when commits are pushed. Great experience.
https://pugjs.org/
https://github.com/pugjs/pug
After this, the next step is to learn CSS so you can make it look a little nicer.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS
Javascript should only be necessary if you want to do something like this:
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
In Just normal web thingsI use Pug for markup in my Svelte + TS projects and I adore it: https://github.com/pugjs/pug
In Experimenting a new syntax to write SVGHTML can't be fixed with a small trick like that.
Just use templating engine like Pug and get away with most of the annoyances.
It's concise about what part of the text is covered by a certain tag due to forced indentation, not to mention you'll never need to close any tag and you never write "class=" but are all turned into CSS selector notation among many other tricks.
https://github.com/pugjs/pug#syntax
Unless the HTML I'm composing will be touched by people like designers who would get scared of new syntax, in which case I'll use Twig or Nunjucks, I'll never write plain HTML for myself.
There's also a very solid implementation in PHP as well.
https://github.com/pug-php/pug
You can either let server side (node.js or PHP) compile that on demand or let your editors compile them as you edit if you're working on a static file.
I really thi
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nk the language humans write should deviate from the language the runtimes understand to get all the convenience while never breaking how runtimes/crawlers interpret your output. Same goes for Stylus against CSS.
Nice, this reminds me of the Jade templating language [0], although after a bit of Googling I see it's now called Pug [1].
[0] http://jade-lang.com/
[1] https://github.com/pugjs/pug
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