Day 80 of #100DaysOfCode — Templates in Flask + Jinja2 Basics

Yesterday I covered routes, requests, and responses. Returning plain strings and JSON is fine for APIs, but for actual web pages, you need HTML, and writing HTML inside Python strings is a nightmare. Today, I covered Flask's templating system, which uses Jinja2, and learned how to serve static files. Coming from Django, this felt immediately familiar because Django's template language is also based on Jinja2. How Flask Finds Templates Flask looks for templates in a templates/ folder in the same