Class 6 Prep
Templates
Thus far, on the back-end, we have managed HTML by storing it in long strings within our Python code. You probably found this process tedious and annoying. Fortunately, there is a much nicer way of constructing HTML content to send back to the client.
Using what's called a template engine, we can specify our HTML as a "template" inside a regular .html file, and simply leave a few "blank spaces", so to speak, wherever we want to place dynamically-generated content. Then our back-end code simply needs to "fill in the blanks". In this lesson you will learn how to use a Python template engine called Jinja 2.
| Task | Resource Type | Link | Instructions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do | Interactive Lesson | Using Jinja2 Templates in Flask | Set up a Jinja2 template loader and render templates |
| Do | Interactive Lesson | Variable Expressions in Jinja2 Templates | Use variable expressions in Jinja2 templates |
| Do | Interactive Lesson | A Task List App | Create a minimal task list that uses conditionals and loops in its template |
| Do | Interactive Lesson | Template Extensions | Create base templates and template extensions |
| Watch | Lesson | Using render_template | Learn how to use the flask.render_template function to more easily render templates when using our most common template setup |
| Do | Review | Class 6 Prep Review | Solidify your knowledge of the concepts covered in these lessons |