Organize module templates and theme templates in Magento

Magento separates templates and themes into different organizational structures to maintain a clean separation of concerns. Understanding this helps you place files exactly where Magento expects to find them.

Templates (Module-Based)

Templates that are part of modules are defined in the module's directory structure:

app/code/Vendor/Module/view/
├── [frontend|adminhtml]/templates/     # PHP templates (.phtml)
└── [frontend|adminhtml]/web/template/  # Knockout templates (.html)

These files include both .phtml templates (PHP-based) and .html templates (used w...