Views Cheats

It's a best practice to render templates along with your views. Setting up a template is easy. In <app_name> directoy, add a directoy called templates:

cd <app_name> && mkdir templates

Then in your <app_name>/templates directoy (that you just created), add another directoy called templates:

cd templates && mkdir <app_name>

The next step is to add an html file. In the currend directoy, type:

touch <template_name.html>

You may now add any content to this html file. Feel free to use the template section of this website as a guide

In a django website, views return data (and templates), which become the content of your routes. The first step to creating a view is to make sure you have imported the render function from django.shortcuts. To do this, go into the views.py file in your app, and near the top of the page, add:

from django.shortcuts import render

Then define a function that accepts request as a parameter. You can call this function whatever you like, but it would be customery to call it index.

def index(request):

Then your function will return the render function with three arguments: the request, your template, and any data that you want it to return in a dictionary:

                
return render(request, 
              <app_name.html>/<template_name.html>, 
              {"<your_key>": <your_value>})

With all of the above in place, code inside your views.py will look something like below. Obviously, the naming will depend on the names that you chose for your funtions, data, and file names

                
from django.shortcuts import render

def index(request):
    return render(request, 
                  <app_name.html>/<template_name.html>, 
                  {"<your_key>": <your_value>})

Views Cheats

Setting Up Templates (Before Views)

Configuring Your Views