Best practice for sharing custom listing template

[emilmalta]

Description

I'm messing around with distributing custom listing templates.

https://github.com/emilmalta/parade

Right now, I'm packaging it as a quarto extension, but I'm not sure what the best practice is for sharing the .html listing template, so users can access it immediately.

Here's what I've tried so far:

contributes:
  formats:
    html:
      format-resources:
        - carousel.html
      theme: custom.scss  

With the extension installed, I would expect to be able to run

---
format: emilmalta/parade-html
listing:
  - id: posts
    contents: posts
    template: carousel.html
---

That only works if I've run the format: emilmalta/parade-html once before though, so that it fetches the format resource into the right folder. If I want users to use it immediately, I need to reference the template in the extensions folder.

---
format: emilmalta/parade-html
listing:
  - id: posts
    contents: posts
    template: _extensions/emilmalta/parade/carousel.html
---

Am I missing something, or is there a better way to distribute listing templates?

[mcanouil]

Currently Quarto extension does not support this, see:

• Make custom EJS listings bundled with extensions available without a template #11872

[emilmalta]

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll follow that thread.