Is jade still maintained?
No — jade stopped being maintained around June 2015. The same project continues under the name pug.
- Status
- No longer maintained
- Last maintained
- June 2015
- Use instead
pug— on npm- Succession
- Renamed package
- Drop-in
- no — expect code changes
- Confidence
- high
What should I use instead of jade?
The same project continues under the name pug. pug is not a drop-in replacement, so expect to change call sites.
How to migrate from jade to pug
Install pug and change require('jade') to require('pug'). Pug 2 also changed template semantics and the default file extension to .pug, so read the v2 migration guide for interpolation and attribute changes.
Why jade is on this list
Jade was renamed to Pug because of a trademark issue, in conjunction with the Pug 2 release. The jade package's last release was 1.11.0 in June 2015 and it is deprecated on npm with a notice telling users to install pug instead; all work since then has happened under the pug name. Pug is still actively released.
The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.
jade alternatives
Beyond the primary recommendation, these are credible for jade's use case:
ejs— view on npmhandlebars— view on npm
Check your own project for jade
npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintainedRun that in the directory holding your lockfile. If jade is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.
Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.
Evidence
Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:
- npm deprecation notice for jade ("Jade has been renamed to pug")npmjs.com
- Pug migration guide: "Due to a trademark issue, the project name has been changed from Jade to Pug"pugjs.org
Packages related to jade
- @hapi/joiRenamed package: joi · unmaintained since March 2020
- @material-ui/coreRenamed package: @mui/material · unmaintained since September 2021
- apollo-serverRenamed package: @apollo/server · unmaintained since November 2023
- apollo-server-expressRenamed package: @apollo/server · unmaintained since November 2023
- babel-eslintRenamed package: @babel/eslint-parser · unmaintained since February 2020
See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.