Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

templates folder

Copy the templates folder from the completed code package into the Arenas application folder. Inside the templates folder is a folder called arenas, with a template HTML file called index.html. This file contains a JavaScript portion that generates a web map. On that map, the location of an NBA arena is displayed.

Django templates use placeholders (demarcated with a {{form.field }} format) that allow for data to be passed at runtime into the template, providing the specifics of the request. These placeholders are located throughout index.html. Django has its own built-in template language, which we will use here, and also includes Jinja2, which Flask also uses (see Chapter 11, Flask and GeoAlchemy2).

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