Building Data-Driven Web Apps with Flask and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Jinja2 templates
Lecture: Jinja2 autocomplete in PyCharm
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Now you may have picked up on the fact that PyCharm was not treating our Jinja templates with as much love as maybe
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you'd expect PyCharm to treat it with. Like here you can see there's no highlighting in here. It says that end for is broken.
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If I type that there's nothing nothing that's helping me. Right? No completion. The reason is, this version of PyCharm
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is a separate clean copy that I have just for recording this video. So it has to be activated for that. So if you go over here to your
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Language and Frameworks, Python Template Languages the way it was set was, language was none. Here you can set the default one.
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I'm going to say Jinja2, pick Chameleon or whatever. Whatever it is you want to work with? I'm going to go with that. Say okay.
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Now, notice we get this auto complete here. We go like that, it auto completes. We can say for p in packages. We could do a double like that.
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It'll expand it out. So, very much nicer. So for the rest of this class just make sure that you have your template language set to Jinja2
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for this current project. Okay? So if we have that, everything should be good and we'll be getting a lot more help and less pushback from PyCharm.