Mastering Flask Web Development - Second Edition

The child templates

Now that we have outlined the base layout, we need to implement all the child pages that will extend the base. Take a look at the way we are implementing the home page and inherit/override the left body block, as shown in the following code:

{% extends "base.html" %}{% import 'macros.html' as macros %}{% block title %}Home{% endblock %}{% block leftbody %}{{ macros.render_posts(posts) }}{{ macros.render_pagination(posts, 'home') }}{% endblock %}

Surprisingly simple, this template extends the base template has expected, and then overrides the title and leftbody block sections. Inside, the leftbody uses two macros to render the posts and their pagination. The macros help us to reuse Jinja2 code and use it like functions, ...