How to do nested comments in Flask/Jinja?

Question

Like the comments in Hacker News and Reddit. I\'ve looked at Jinja\'s docs but I can\'t find anything about recursion (which I assume is how this sort of thing is done). Any ide

Answer 1

Unless, you give an example how your comment data is laid out, I can only give a basic example how recursive for loops work:

{%- for item in comments recursive %}
    
{{ item.text }}
    {%- if item.children -%}
        
{{ loop(item.children) }}
    {%- endif %}