Building data-driven web apps with Flask and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Jinja2 templates
Lecture: Better organization for your template files
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I'm not a huge fan of piling all your templates
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in here, no.
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It might seem like it's just no big deal
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it's all going to be fine because we have three
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only two real ones and one is the shared one right?
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But if you look at something like
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training.talkpython.fm
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we could have like 62 separate templates
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and they under different circumstances
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look real similar like index.
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Now it could be the main index or it could be the index
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for your account home or things like that.
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I really don't like having them all crammed in here.
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Let's do a little bit of work ahead of time
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to get this organized better.
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Now there's not really enough going on here
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to make this super obvious.
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Still I think it will be, you'll get the idea.
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So let's go here and make a directory called shared.
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You know what goes in shared?
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That's right, that goes in there.
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And then we're going to make another one
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let's suppose we're going to have some home groupings
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stuff about the home page and what not
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so like home about contact, those are all going to go
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in there. Now that seems pretty cool right?
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But there's going to be a load of problems.
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How did that run? Did that get...
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Let's see if that got changed.
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Look at that! That is so incredible.
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Sometimes I forget PyCharm's just awesome.
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So what happened when I dragged that in there
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is it said oh we were using this
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but now where you've moved it around
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so in order to fix it so it doesn't crash
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'cause it would have, it's going to put it
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put the directory name there.
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So that's super cool that PyCharm fixed that
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and it also did that up here.
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Look at that when we put that in shared.
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So, okay, I'm impressed.
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I was able to drag those all around
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and actually PyCharm fixed everything.
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But you would have to make sure that you did that.
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Now let's just double-check one more time.
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Everything's still working.
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Home page, fancy fancy about page, all right.
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It's all working just fine and it's using our nice
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new organization.
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You don't have to do this but trust me
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on real sites with 50 or 100 templates
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you will thank yourself over and over again
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for this organization.
