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Chapter: Jinja2 templates
Lecture: Template chapter introduction
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It's time to dig in
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to the HTML side of this whole web course.
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We're going to focus on templates and HTML
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and taking data and turning that into HTML.
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As well as some patterns that make that
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very much nicer than maybe the most straightforward way.
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So, we're going to focus on templates
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and these common views that share the layout
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and the overall look and feel across our site.
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Let's start with templates.
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So, this is just a standalone example
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it's not from our PyPI project that we're working on.
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So, just to keep everything isolated.
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And the goal is, if we're given a dictionary
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a list of dictionaries like this.
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So this is some form of data
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could have got it from the database
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we could've gotten it from the web service
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hey, it can even come from a JSON file, who knows.
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But we have this data
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we want to loop over those three items
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and we want to show a picture
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and we want to show the category.
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This is from like a bike example, like a bike store
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and we have different categories of bikes
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each category has a picture of it
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encourages people to click on it.
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And we're going to render this into some kind
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of responsive grid or set of divs
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or something to that effect.
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It's going to look like this
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and have little picture and the title.
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Picture and the title, presumably they're going to be hyperlinks
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something to that effect.
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We might not replicate this exactly
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'cause we don't want to go too much into the design
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but this is kind of what we're aiming for, okay?
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So we're going to see how we do that in Jinja
