Eel: Jinja folder structure

[ClayMDMI]

With the new addition of Jinja (bless you <3), the folder structure doesn't really work in a logical way.

When I initialize eel without Jinja...

eel.init("web")
eel.start("templates/recordPicker.html", size=(800, 500))

I can access css through <link rel="stylesheet" type='text/css' href="/css/recordPicker.css" /> with the directory starting in my web folder.

However, when I initialize eel WITH Jinja...

eel.init("web")
eel.start("templates/recordPicker.html", size=(800, 500), templates='templates')

I can no longer access css through <link rel="stylesheet" type='text/css' href="/css/recordPicker.css" />. When I try this, a Jinja error will come up that says jinja2.exceptions.TemplateNotFound: er.css, where er.css is the file name I am looking for MINUS some leading characters equal to the number of characters in my templates folder + 1 (Why?).

I would prefer to always search for files in my main web folder and not have the directory changed when using templates, which I think causes confusion. Is there a way to use Jinja without specifying another folder, or to use Jinja but have access to the base web directory?

[ChrisKnott]

@ClayMDMI To be completely honest I am not totally familiar with how Jinja2 works. I believe the contributor who wrote this feature did it in such a way to limit impact on non-Jinja usage.

It might take me a while to figure out what is going on here unless someone else wants to chip in @sanders41 @samuelhwilliams

[samuelhwilliams]

This is the same problem as in your other issue and should be solved by upgrading to eel v0.10.2. There is a bug in v0.10.1 that tries to render all files through Jinja, even if they're not inside the jinja templates directory.

[ChrisKnott]

It seems what happened is @ChrisKnott pushed code to master without testing it properly

[fbenavides69]

There is still a problem with Jinja, it's not rendering the files under the defined templates directory: eel.start('templates/index.html', size=(350, 500), jinja_templates='templates')
web/templates contains files: index.html and layout.html
index.html contains{% extends 'layout.html' %}
index.html gets rendered outputting: {% extends 'layout.html' %} withou jinja ever touching these directives.