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Easily overridable templatesΒΆ

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Templates are an important part of your pluggable app. They demonstrate how your app works. The more complex your app, the more important templates are. Following a few practices can make your templates very useful. We have two goals: 1. Get demonstrable functionality in as short a time as possible, and 2. modify the fewest templates to do so.

Instead of putting your templates loose in your templates directory where they can conflict with other apps templates, * put them in a directory within templates, named after your app to name space them. * Then you reference them as the relative path from templates, in this case: coolapp/base.html

coolapp
+-templates
  +-coolapp
    +-base.html

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