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To navigate or not to navigate

Before the JavaScript block, there are other three blocks in the base template that are not defined in mava_base.html.twig; why?

Well, this is part of our templating strategy. Mava is a web application and not a website. This means that we might have some pages that follow a completely different structure and contain different types of elements. For example, in the login page, I don't want to show the navigation bar. This becomes very handy when our visitors are using a mobile device. Removing the navigation and footer from the login page makes it look more like a mobile app.

This means that we can extend mava_base.html.twig for special pages, yet we need another template (containing navigation, footer, and so on) ...