Phug (unified pug engine for Pug

What is Phug?

Phug is the pug template engine for PHP. Phug offers you a clean way to write your templates (such as HTML pages).

How to run JS scripts inside templates?

There are different possible approaches: First of all, avoid mixing PHP and JS in your back-end so if you already have a PHP app and find some node.js package you would use, check there is no equivalent in PHP. If you don't need to call PHP functions/methods/objects in your templates, then you can use the native npm pugjs package.

How to use helper functions with pugjs engine?

When you use Pug-php with pugjs option to true all the data you pass to the view is encoded as JSON. So you loose your class typing and you loose closures functions.

How to disable errors on production?

In production, you should set the debug option to false. Then you should have a global exception handler for your PHP application to hide errors from the user. Best practice would be to log them (in a file for example) using exception handler (see set_exception_handler). A more radical way is to hide them completely with error_reporting(0); or the same setting in php.ini.

How to includes files dynamically?

The include and extend statements only allow static paths: include myFile but disallow dynamic imports such as: include $myVariable. But custom keyword come to the rescue: Phug::addKeyword('dyninclude', function ($args) { return array( 'beginPhp' => 'echo file_get_contents(' . $args .