How Does Node.js + Express Find Pre-Rendered Views?

I would like to pre-render my Jade files with a Gulp task, so that my views are not rendered on-the-fly. From my understanding, if one is using the Jade view engine with Express 4, this is how the Jade templates become their HTML equivalents (please correct me if I am wrong).

I realize that the views directory is typically pointed to using the statement app.set('views', __dirname + '/views/directory');, where app is an Express app. However, I am not sure how to force Express to serve the pre-rendered HTML files instead.

Any suggestions are appreciated.