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What is Template Rendering?

2:35 with Andrew Chalkley and Joel Kraft

Here's an introduction to template rendering.

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    The majority of the HTML you serve from an app will never change. 0:00
    If a user is viewing photos in a gallery for example, the photos change. 0:00
    But the rest of the page stays the same. 0:05
    There will be some small differences, like a different caption, or 0:08
    some content specifically related to that photo. 0:12
    But the basic structure and most of the HTML will be the same. 0:15
    Most web application frameworks handles this situation using what are called 0:20
    templates. 0:24
    A template provides the basic HTML for your app and serves it to the users. 0:26

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