How to create a template in HTML?

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There are, essentially, three places you can do this:

  1. At build time. Run a script that puts the pages together and outputs static HTML. Then upload the static HTML to the server. Back in 2013 I recommended ttree, but these days static site builders are common and more powerful. My projects tend towards Gatsby (for complex projects) and Metalsmith (for simpler ones). Jekyll is very popular (and Github provides documentation for using it with GH Pages).
  2. At runtime on the server. This could be a simple SSI, a PHP include or a full template system (of which there are many, including Template Toolkit and mustache), possibly running inside an MVC framework (such as Catalyst or Django). This is the most common approach, it has less time between making a change and putting the result life then doing the templating at build time.
  3. At runtime on the client. This adds a dependency on client-side JavaScript (which can be fragile and unfriendly to search engines), so I wouldn’t recommend it unless you already had a server-side or build-time solution in place. Gatsby, for example, is a static site generator that builds a React frontend backed by static pages.

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