ENG-9585: Remove os templates

[carlosabadia]

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[linear-code]

ENG-9585

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will not alter performance

✅ 24 untouched benchmarks

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[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

This PR removes the open-source templates feature end-to-end: the docs gallery page, sidebar entry, individual template markdown files, gallery route generation, TemplatesState/sidebar/pagination components, the choose-templates prompt option in reflex init, and the corresponding constants and redirect helper.

• The Python-side cleanup (templates.py, redir.py, constants/base.py) is complete — no dangling references remain for CHOOSE_TEMPLATES, REFLEX_TEMPLATES_URL, or reflex_templates().
• gallery_app_page.py in reflex_site_shared/templates/ was only ever imported by the now-deleted apps.py and is left as unreachable dead code; it should be removed alongside the rest of the cleanup.

Confidence Score: 4/5

Safe to merge — the removal is consistent across docs, shared components, and the CLI prompt with all import chains properly updated.

The only loose end is gallery_app_page.py, which is now unreachable code but causes no runtime error. All functional paths are cleanly removed.

packages/reflex-site-shared/src/reflex_site_shared/templates/gallery_app_page.py — orphaned after apps.py deletion.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
reflex/utils/templates.py	Removes the choose-templates prompt option and its associated redirect branch from initialize_app; logic that remains (AI redirect, blank/default template) is untouched.
reflex/utils/redir.py	Removes reflex_templates() helper; no remaining callers in the codebase.
packages/reflex-base/src/reflex_base/constants/base.py	Removes CHOOSE_TEMPLATES and REFLEX_TEMPLATES_URL constants from the Templates namespace; no remaining references in the codebase.
packages/reflex-site-shared/src/reflex_site_shared/gallery/apps.py	Entire file deleted — contained gallery route generation, more_posts, and page renderer for open-source templates; all consumers updated in this PR.
packages/reflex-site-shared/src/reflex_site_shared/gallery/sidebar.py	Entire file deleted — contained TemplatesState, filter sidebar, and pagination components; no remaining consumers.
packages/reflex-site-shared/src/reflex_site_shared/components/code_card.py	Removes gallery_app_card component and the now-unused re import; code_card (the remaining export) is unchanged.
docs/app/reflex_docs/pages/init.py	Removes import of gallery_apps_routes and its spread into routes; avoids a broken import since apps.py is deleted.
packages/reflex-site-shared/src/reflex_site_shared/templates/gallery_app_page.py	No longer imported by anything after apps.py is deleted — this file is now dead code that was not removed in this PR.
docs/app/reflex.lock/bun.lock	Dependency lockfile regeneration: removes react-dropzone, bumps vite to 8.0.14, and updates various @babel/* and @rolldown/* packages to latest minor/patch versions.

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[FarhanAliRaza]

packages/reflex-site-shared/.../templates/gallery_app_page.py
packages/reflex-site-shared/.../components/code_card.py
They become orphaned if that is intentional.

[masenf]

there's more code that needs to be removed here, about to push a commit

pushed commit

[FarhanAliRaza]

reflex/packages/reflex-base/src/reflex_base/constants/base.py

Line 104 in d9640b1

RELEASES_URL = "https://api.github.com/repos/reflex-dev/templates/releases"

There is no user of this constant.

in validate_and_create_app_using_remote_template

  After simplification, template_url is always a non-None f-string on the only
  non-raising path, so:
  if template_url is None:
      return