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Published inApr 2024
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Antonio Melé
Antonio Melé
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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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Building class-based views

We have built the blog application using function-based views. Function-based views are simple and powerful, but Django also allows you to build views using classes.

Class-based views are an alternative way to implement views as Python objects instead of functions. Since a view is a function that takes a web request and returns a web response, you can also define your views as class methods. Django provides base view classes that you can use to implement your own views. All of them inherit from the View class, which handles HTTP method dispatching and other common functionalities.

Why use class-based views

Class-based views offer some advantages over function-based views that are useful for specific use cases. Class-based views allow you to:

  • Organize code related to HTTP methods, such as GET, POST, or PUT, in separate methods, instead of using conditional branching
  • Use multiple inheritance to create reusable view classes (also...
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Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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