Django: Overriding AND extending an app template

Question

If you want to override a template coming with an app in django (in app/templates/app/) you create a template of the same name in another directory, which the template loade

Answer 1

Django 1.9 and later has this feature:

Django template loaders can now extend templates recursively.

So you can have a file from app1 with contents like this:

app1/templates/example/foobar.html:

I'm from app1
{% block main %}{% endblock %}

And you can extend it with a file from app2 (notice that the template name example/foobar.html is the same):

app2/templates/example/foobar.html:

{% extends "example/foobar.html" %}
{% block main %}
  
I'm from app2
{% endblock %}

The end-result should be:

I'm from app1
I'm from app2