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SharePoint Online templates best practice and guidance
For site templates you should look for SharePoint Patterns and Practises Remote Provisioning (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/pnp-remote-provisioning). I have used PnP PowerShell to export site as a template and applied template to another site.
My recommendation is to use separate site collection for hosting assest, like images, CSS and JavaScript. I also use Content Type Hub to centrally manage content types and site columns.
And, of course, as vanilla as possible.
True, if you are building whole provisioning solution. One option is to create template site manually, export it to PnP provisioning template and import it to newly created sites with PnP PowerShell. It requires manual operation, and it's viable solution for large number of sites.
- Yeap, if you are not a developer it's going to be difficult for you to get your head around PnP
