What is the best location to put templates in django project?

Question

What is the best location to put templates in django project?

Answer 1

From the Django book, chapter 4:

If you can’t think of an obvious place to put your templates, we recommend creating a templates directory within your Django project (i.e., within the mysite directory you created in Chapter 2, if you’ve been following along with our examples).

This is exactly what I do, and has worked great for me.

My directory structure looks something like this:

/media for all my CSS/JS/images etc
/templates for my templates
/projectname for the main project code (i.e. the Python code)

Answer 2

This is more a personal choice at the project-level. If you are talking about apps that need to be pluggable, then a templates directory in your app is the place where they go default. But project-wide, it is what works best for you.

Answer 3

You could also consider having your templates in a database, using django-dbtemplates. It is also setup for caching, and the django-reversion application which helps you keep old versions of your templates around.

It works quite well, but I'd prefer a little more flexibility on the import/sync to/from filesystem side.

Answer 4

Placed in <PROJECT>/<APP>/templates/<APP>/template.html for app-specific templates to help with making the app reusable elsewhere.

For general "global" templates I put them in <PROJECT>/templates/template.html