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Python Django Basics Django Templates Template Inheritance

Posted by Keith Ostertag
Keith Ostertag
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Why layout.html in site templates folder rather than app templates folder?

I'm not getting why Kenneth has us put layout.html and base.html into learning_site/templates/ rather than putting them into learning_site/courses/templates/?

I would think these two files should go into whichever app they are specifically designed for, not the broader site templates which would be applied to any and all apps?

So, if you make more than one app, aren't these necessarily going to apply to those apps as well as to the Courses app?

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Jacinto Jacinto
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Jacinto Jacinto
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Jacinto Jacinto
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Jacinto Jacinto
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 7,869 Points

It's because this layout template is intended to be used by all the app views and primary site views. It will not just be elusively used by courses.

In the example here it's used by the view within learning_site. It would be quite awkward to extend a template view from the courses app to render a view within learning site.