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

Django 1.10

TEMPLATE_DIRS is deprecated.

Now we need to use TEMPLATE, introducing in Django 1.8 like this:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            # ... some options here ...
        },
    },
]

Once you have defined TEMPLATES, you can safely remove ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS, TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, TEMPLATE_DEBUG, TEMPLATE_DIRS, TEMPLATE_LOADERS, and TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID.

About the best location, Django looking for template like this :

• DIRS defines a list of directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order.
• APP_DIRS tells whether the engine should look for templates inside installed applications. Each backend defines a conventional name for the subdirectory inside applications where its templates should be stored.

More information : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/templates/#configuration