Django Views are one of the vital participants of M V T Structure of Django. A View is the user interface — what you see in your browser when you render a website. It is represented by HTML/CSS/Javascript and Jinja files.
So, what is a view function in Django?
As per Django Documentation, A view function is a Python function that takes a Web request and returns a Web response. This response can be the HTML contents of a Web page, or a redirect, or a 404 error, or an XML document, or an image, anything that a web browser can display.
Another thing we asked ourselves was; what is the difference between Django views and MVC?
We should see if we can figure it out! (Note that if you’ve used other frameworks based on the MVC (Model-View-Controller), do not get confused between Django views and views in the MVC paradigm. Django views roughly correspond to controllers in MVC, and Django templates to views in MVC.) Illustration of How to create and use a Django view using an Example.
The next thing we wondered was; what is a class based view in Django?
While django provides us with a number of built in class based views to work with, at the core of all these views in one main view called “View”. This is a class that all other views will inherit from and provides us with the core functionality to make a django class based view.
What is a Django project?
A Django project/ consists of a main folder also know as Django folder which consists of settings. Py and one or more app folders which contains views., and py. As shown in image, geeks_site is project folder, brand is an app, db. Sqlite3 is default database provided for django and manage. Py is python file which runs command to manage changes in project.
Individual Project: I follow a standardized structure template used by many developers called django-skel for individual projects. It basically takes care of all your static file and media files and all. Virtual environment: I have a virtualenvs folder inside my home to store all virtual environments in the system i., and e.
Where can I find settings in Django?
Inside the Django project, My. Project, there should be the manage. Py file, the media folder, the My. Project folder that contains the settings. Py file, and the Django applications. By default, Django provides us with a single settings. Py file and some other important files such as the urls., and py, wsgi., and py, etc.
What is the purpose of the configuration directory in Django?
This directory is used for custom applications. You can safely remove this directory, if you do not plan to develop custom applications. Most of a Django project’s apps will be installed into the Python path and not be kept in your project root. This directory contains configuration files for deployment.