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Web Development with Django

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212505
Pages 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (5):
Ben Shaw Ben Shaw
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Bharath Chandra K S Bharath Chandra K S
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Chris Guest Chris Guest
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface
1. Introduction to Django 2. Models and Migrations 3. URL Mapping, Views, and Templates 4. Introduction to Django Admin 5. Serving Static Files 6. Forms 7. Advanced Form Validation and Model Forms 8. Media Serving and File Uploads 9. Sessions and Authentication 10. Advanced Django Admin and Customizations 11. Advanced Templating and Class-Based Views 12. Building a REST API 13. Generating CSV, PDF, and Other Binary Files 14. Testing 15. Django Third-Party Libraries 16. Using a Frontend JavaScript Library with Django

Class-Based Views

As the name implies, class-based views are implemented as Python classes. Using the principles of class inheritance, these classes are implemented as subclasses of Django's generic view classes. Unlike function-based views, where all the view logic is expressed explicitly in a function, Django's generic view classes come with various pre-built properties and methods that can provide shortcuts to writing clean, reusable views. This property comes in handy quite often during web development; for example, developers often need to render an HTML page without needing any data inserted from the database, or any customization specific to the user. In this case, it is possible to simply inherit from Django's TemplateView, and specify the path of the HTML file. The following is an example of a class-based view that can display the same message as in the function-based view example:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView
class HomePage(TemplateView...
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