Building data-driven web apps with Flask and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion
Lecture: Layout pages
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We saw that when we create our HTML page
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we've got a bunch of CSS, JavaScript
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other settings, meta tags, all that kind of stuff
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maybe even navigation bars and footers.
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We want that shared across all the different pages.
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So instead of replicating it
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which would be a terrible idea
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we saw that we can use the extends
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and create these blocks and fill them in.
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So we can create a Jinja2 template
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and we can say that our page template
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extends this shared layout template.
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Remember how we organized our template files as well?
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We had a template folder
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and then there're a folder for each view module
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that we're going to put together
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like account and packages and so on.
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Then we also had a shared one
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and that's where we put our shared layout.
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You don't have to do that, but you know you probably should.
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It will really help you in the end.
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So anyway, you definitely, definitely want to make sure
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that you use this share layout.
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It makes maintaining the site really much easier
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and it's great. Definitely do it. Very easy in Flask.
