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All of the views found in the Store and Publisher also consists of a number nested smaller views. Each of these views are referred to a partial, which is defined in a .hbs file (e.g., header.hbs).
Why is the extended-search-attributes.hbs partial file definition empty?
This is a placeholder partial. Therefore, the .hbs file is empty as there is no actual implementation on the ES side.
What is meant by creating the shell of an asset extension?
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