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None reusable snippets?

I'm using snippets to break up long templates into more manageable chunks, is this bad practice and should I only use snippets for reusable code?

Thanks Lee

Solution

  • It depends of what you are doing in your templates. It is indeed generally a good practice to reuse part of templates in smaller chunks, but it's recommended to avoid the usage of embeds because of underlying performance issues. Snippet are cool as soon as you don't have to pass variables to your sub-templates.

    Maybe a good approach for you if your templates are not already totally coded is to use the 'template partial' technique. See the following tutorials here under.