Rendering to templates
After writing the views, we will surely want to render the content in a template and get information from the underlying database.
Getting ready
To render templates, we will use Jinja
as the templating language. Refer to Chapter 2, Templating with Jinja2, to understand templating in depth.
How to do it...
We will again work in reference to our existing catalog application from the previous recipe. Let’s modify our views to render templates and then display data from the database in these templates.
The following is the modified views.py
code and the templates. The complete app can be downloaded from the code bundle provided with this book or from the GitHub repository.
We will start by modifying our views – that is, flask_catalog_template/my_app/catalog/views.py
– to render templates on specific handlers:
from flask import request, Blueprint, render_template from my_app import db from my_app.catalog.models import Product...