Django: Getting Started Transcripts
Chapter: HTML Templates
Lecture: New app for templates
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To demonstrate the use of the template engine. I'm going to create a new app. This app will get used throughout the chapter.
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I'm inside of my terminal within my Alexandria project. Like in the previous chapter, I create an app by using the start app management command.
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This new app is called home and will contain common pages like the home and about screens. Here's the result.
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Django created the expected placeholder files for the home app.
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You tell Django where to find your templates through configuration in the settings.py file. Best practices is for this directory to be named templates.
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Like with tests, you can associate templates with the project and or an app.
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Also like tests, I find it personally easier to keep them together in one place unless I'm writing a reusable app to be shipped separately.
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Let me create a templates directory inside of the project and I'm ready to go.
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Now I'll head off to settings.py and configure Django so that it knows where this is.
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A couple of things need to be configured for the template ng engine Let me open up settings.py
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Remember that's inside of the inner alexandria directory. On line 16, here you'll notice the base_dir value.
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It uses Python's pathlib library to store the directory where the project lives. This gets used throughout the settings file.
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Remember it, I'll be using it in just a second. Here I've added the newly created home app to the installed apps file and now I'll scroll
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down to the templates. On line 55 is the templates definition. The dirs value inside of the
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templates configuration tells Django where to look for templates. I'm going to tell it to look in the templates directory I just created.
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The path flip library allows you to join objects using the overloaded/operator. Dirs now points to the fully qualified path of the templates directory.
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That's the only configuration change you'll need to get going.