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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
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are some partial file definitions empty?
The partial definitions of some partials (such as, the sidebar-container.hbs and extended-search-attributes.hbs
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This is a placeholder partial. Therefore, the .hbs file is empty as there is no ) are empty, because they are placeholder partials, which do not have any actual implementation on the ES side.
What is meant by creating the shell of an asset extension?
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