Side Note: Templates for django-cotton not getting picked up by the watcher

[Naude555]

Any HTML files in the templates/ directory under the project root are not being picked up. This is likely due to my custom setup, where the settings files are nested deeper in the directory structure than usual.

project_root/
    templates/
        base/
            not_pickedup.html
    config/
        django/
            base_settings.py
            dev.py
            prod.py
    accounts/
        templates/
            picked_up.html

To resolve this, add

BASE_DIR / "templates"

to your TEMPLATES setting to force it:

from pathlib import Path

BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates",
        "DIRS": [
            BASE_DIR / "templates",
        ],
        "APP_DIRS": True,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "context_processors": [
                "django.template.context_processors.debug",
                "django.template.context_processors.request",
                "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
                "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
            ],
        },
    },
]

[oliverandrich]

I think this will be solved with Tailwind CSS 4.0 any, which doesn't use these explicit collection dirs. But I will look into it.