Template Inheritance in Pug
Template inheritance is a method that allows you to create a hierarchy of templates, where child templates inherit structure and functionality from parent templates. This concept creates modular, maintainable, and scalable web applications by separating layout concerns from content specifics.
Template Inheritance: Extend and Block in Pug
While creating websites or different web applications, we can first create a base HTML template, and build different pages on top of the base template. This concept of using building pages over a base template is called Template Inheritance. It’s a powerful feature available in web template engines like Pug. We can use template inheritance in Pug using “extend” or “block”.
In this article, we will explore how we can use template inheritance in Pug, along with some examples.
Table of Content
- Template Inheritance in Pug
- Extend in Pug
- Block in Pug
- Template Inheritance using Extend and Block
- Advantages of Template Inheritance