Building list and detail views

Now that you have knowledge of how to use the ORM, you are ready to build the views of the blog application. A Django view is just a Python function that receives a web request and returns a web response. All the logic to return the desired response goes inside the view.

First, you will create your application views, then you will define a URL pattern for each view, and finally, you will create HTML templates to render the data generated by the views. Each view will render a template, passing variables to it, and will return an HTTP response with the rendered output.

Creating list and detail views

Let's start by creating a view to display the list of posts. Edit the views.py file of your blog application and make it look like this:

from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404
from .models import Post
def post_list(request):
    posts = Post.published.all()
    return render(request,
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