use jade lib to generate a template render function

compile_jade.js

#!/usr/bin/node
var jade = require('jade');
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');

var compile = function (str) {
  options ={ client: true, compileDebug: false};
  var fn = jade.compile(str, options);
  return  fn.toString();
}

function icompile( jadestr, mfn) {
  preline = ["(function() {",
  "     this.JST || (this.JST = {});",
  "     this.JST['"+ mfn +"'] = "
  ].join("\n");

  endline = "}).call();"
  return preline + compile( jadestr) + endline;
}

filefn = process.argv[2];
jadestr = fs.readFileSync( filefn, 'utf-8');
rjs = compile( jadestr);//, process.argv[3]);
console.log(rjs);