Flask By Example

Advanced use of Jinja templates

Now we have perfect separation of our backend and frontend components, but our application doesn't do anything more than it did before. Let's take a look at how to display multiple news articles from a selected publication. We don't want to add three new arguments to our render_template call for each article (or dozens of additional arguments if we ever decide that we want to display more than just the title, date, and summary of an article).

Fortunately, Jinja can take over some of the logic from Python. This is where we have to be careful: we spent all that effort to separate our logic and view components, and when we discover how powerful the Jinja language actually is, it's tempting to move a lot of the logic ...