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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Django Design Patterns and Best Practices Industry-standard web development techniques and solutions using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831345
Length 282 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Arun Ravindran Arun Ravindran
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Django and Patterns 2. Application Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Models 4. Views and URLs 5. Templates 6. Admin Interface 7. Forms 8. Working Asynchronously 9. Creating APIs 10. Dealing with Legacy Code 11. Testing and Debugging 12. Security 13. Production-Ready 14. Python 2 Versus Python 3 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

How templates work

Django renders templates while being agnostic of the actual template engine, as the following diagram shows:

Simplified depiction of template rendering in Django

Each template is rendered by trying each template backend specified by the TEMPLATES variable in settings.py in order.

A Loader object corresponding to the backend will search for the template. Based on the backend's configuration, several kinds of loaders will be used. For instance, filesystem.Loader loads templates from the filesystem according to DIRS, and app_directories.Loader loads templates from within app directories.

If a Loader is successful, the search ends and that particular backend template engine is chosen for rendering. This results in a Template object, which contains the parsed and compiled template.

To render a Template, you will need to provide it with a Context object...

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