Comment by pier25

2 months ago

Amazing that Django didn't have this until 2025

It's had includes and custom template tags for over a decade. Partials are a slightly nicer design for a subset of that pattern.

Wouldn’t Jinja2 macros count?

  • I stayed away from Jinja2 ... was under the impression it has lower performance. But I could have been wrong all these years.

    • >For nearly all cases, Django’s built-in template language is perfectly adequate. However, if the bottlenecks in your Django project seem to lie in the template system and you have exhausted other opportunities to remedy this, a third-party alternative may be the answer.

      >Jinja2 can offer performance improvements, particularly when it comes to speed.

      https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/topics/performance/#al...