What is the best location to put templates in django project?

Question

What is the best location to put templates in django project?

Answer 1

I understood TEMPLATE_DIRS requires an absolute path. And I don't like absolute paths in my code. So this is working well for me, in settings.py:

import os

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),
                 "../APPNAME/templates")
)

Answer 2

Placed in <PROJECT>/<APP>/templates/<APP>/template.html for app-specific templates to help with making the app reusable elsewhere.

For general "global" templates I put them in <PROJECT>/templates/template.html

Answer 3

Previous solution didn't work in my case. I used:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [ os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),"../myapp/templates") ]