# Can we use \`.gjs\` for route templates?

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**Created:** [March 12, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-use-gjs-for-route-templates/357046 "2025-03-12T23:39:40Z")\
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I think my go-to for this is just including styles directly in the glimmer component for the page. That’s the only thing I’ve tried that works consistently. And then I don’t have to muck with the conditional CSS rules.

The CSS compilation pipeline has been giving me no end of troubles - I’m finding it’s really inconsistent about refreshing, applying rules… things disappear and I don’t know why. I don’t know if this has something to do with running in a Docker container? I’ve now dispensed with my symlink to the plugins folder entirely - I believe that was causing problems with the Docker volume mount and file watching/recompilation. I can probably create a minimal repo to reproduce these problems… I’ll see if I can do that and get it published in the next few days.

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