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Templates

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- [Instructor] Modules are built to work independently, but they also need to be flexible and reusable so they can be mixed and matched to create different layouts. Putting together templates of commonly-used combinations and layouts can streamline development, but also test that the components works as intended. A project that I worked on, Women and Tech, had two page templates they needed to be flexible, the interview pages and the landing page. On the interview page, we needed to be able to add modules like Q&A blocks and images in various styles, landscape, portrait, or two pictures side-by-side, and pullout quotes. But we also needed to be able to display these modules in any order and in any quantity. I started by building out the modules and components as standalone pieces. After that was complete, I started assembling the components into a full page and was able to test that they fit as intended. I also found that I needed to create a few helper classes for the one-off…

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