Difference between view and template in Grails

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More Than Five picture More Than Five · Aug 16, 2013 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

In a Grails app, I am trying to figure out when to use a view and when to use a template for a gsp. Are there any obvious reasons? Or does it just come down to reuse?

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Igor Artamonov picture Igor Artamonov · Aug 16, 2013

Basically Template is a (reusable) part of a View. Useful for splitting View into logical parts and/or for reusing same code from different views.

So, if you're rendering a whole page - use View. If you need just a small part - use Template.

See docs for Views and Templates - http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/theWebLayer.html#viewsAndTemplates

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