Beginning Django: Web Application Development and Deployment with Python

© Daniel Rubio 2017

Daniel Rubio, Beginning Django, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2787-9_4

4. Jinja Templates in Django

Daniel Rubio¹ 

(1)F. Bahia, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

In addition to Django templates, the Django framework also supports Jinja templates. Jinja is a stand-alone template engine project¹ that’s very similar to Django’s built-in template system.

However, the adoption and growth behind Jinja templates in Django projects is in part due to the design limitations of Django templates, which have changed little to nothing since Django’s creation.

Jinja Advantages and Disadvantages

In order for you to gain a high-level perspective of Jinja templates and learn if they’re a good fit for your Django projects, I’ll first enumerate ...