> Currently, jade-inheritance depends on its own version of Jade to parse templates. Since jade-inheritance does not offer compilation, this must be done using other tools which may use a different version of Jade.

Why not use the jade that's already installed by the parent app? Due to the way dependencies work in npm, by just removing the jade dependency from jade-inheritance it should just traverse up the directory structure until it finds a jade package. Just instruct users to install jade alongside with jade-inheritance, and instead of using node_modules/jade-inheritance/node_modules/jade, it should use node_modules/jade.