ansible - delete unmanaged files from directory?

Question

I want to recursively copy over a directory and render all .j2 files in there as templates. For this I am currently using the following lines:

Answer 1

There might be a couple of ways to handle this, but would it be possible to entirely empty the target directory in a task before the template step? Or maybe drop the templated files into a temporary directory and then delete+rename in a subsequent step?