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Django Class Based Views Unleashed

Django Class Based Views (CBVs) are an important part of using Django effectively. CBVs help us eliminate redundant code across our entire application and stay DRY while using CRUD and CRUD-like views.

Here's a basic example:

python

def my_home_view(request):
      return render(request, 'home.html', {})

Becomes

python

class MyHomeView(View):
     def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
          return render(request, 'home.html', {})


my_home_view = MyHomeView.as_view()

This, of course, isn't ground breaking. How about a detail view? or a List view?

python

class SomeModelListView(ListView):
     model = SomeModel

python

class SomeModelDetailView(DetailView):
     model = SomeModel

These two classes provide us a default template, a default lookup (for a QuerySet or object lookup), and default template context. These defaults can be reused for any model in your project.

This series will explore all of above and much more.

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