Jinja Templating IDE, Extensions and Tips

[tlourey]

I'm wondering what IDE/Editor and extensions/plugins (for said IDE) do others use for their jinja template creation?

Also any tricks to help speed up their creation?

https://textfsm.nornir.tech/ when set to Jinja but in Visual Studio ideally but i'm open to notepad++ suggestions as well. vim as a last resort...

[jdrew82]

Most of us are VS Code users and just use the extensions for that App. I'd advise using one of the many Jinja2 templating Apps out there like Template Designer For All or JinjaFX. Both have self contained deployments that make it easy to work with templates and variables to test template generation.

[tlourey]

I'm a VS Code user, but I was hoping there was something like JinjaFX for VS Code. The extensions I've seen so far don't seem to help much other than syntax highlighting. What extensions do you use?

Do you have a link for Template Designer For All, I'm struggling to find it. Thanks

[jdrew82]

My mistake, it's Template Designer for Automation! It's here. And here's JinjaFX. Regarding extensions that add that capability into VS Code, unfortunately, I'm not aware of any.

[tlourey]

Many thanks

[tlourey]

For anyone interested, I found a VSCode extension called Template Finder that kind of works if you use YAML files instead of JSON as the variables. It only works in simple cases as it doesn't support Jinja Notation. Still for beginners or inital simple development its a little bit helpful. There is feature request to improve its support.

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