Jinja Templates

Basic Setup

1. Create a folder containing all your templates

   templates
   ├── layout.html
   ...
   └── links.html
   

2. Create an Environment with an appropriate loader so that jinja is able to find the templates.

   import jinja2 as j2
   
   loader = j2.FileSystemLoader(templates_dir)
   env = j2.Environment(loader=loader)
   

3. Load the relevant template(s) from the environment

   template = env.get_template("layout.html")
   

4. Create the context containing the variables that are passed down into the template.

   context = {
      "date": datetime.now(),
      "author": "S. King",
      "word_count": float("inf")
   }
   

5. Render the template!

   with open(filename, "w") as f:
      f.write(template.render(context))