Chapter 2. Templating with Jinja2

This chapter will cover the basics of Jinja2 templating from the perspective of Flask; we will also learn how to make applications with modular and extensible templates.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Bootstrap layout
  • Block composition and layout inheritance
  • Creating a custom context processor
  • Creating a custom Jinja2 filter
  • Creating a custom macro for forms
  • Advanced date and time formatting