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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

You're reading from   Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer Discover best practices, tooling, and solutions for writing and organizing Django applications in production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073639
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Starting a Project
2. Chapter 1: Undertaking a Colossal Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Project Configuration 4. Chapter 3: Models, Relations, and Inheritance 5. Part 2 – Django Components
6. Chapter 4: URLs, Views, and Templates 7. Chapter 5: Django Forms 8. Chapter 6: Exploring the Django Admin Site 9. Chapter 7: Working with Messages, Email Notifications, and PDF Reports 10. Part 3 – Advanced Django Components
11. Chapter 8: Working with the Django REST Framework 12. Chapter 9: Django Testing 13. Chapter 10: Database Management 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with complex views

A view method will suffice for a lot of different situations. For more robust and large-scale projects, we can apply a few tricks to make these views more adaptable in complicated use cases. Class-based views are used when writing adaptable and reusable applications.

Class-based views

With class-based views, we can write code that can be reused and extended easily. Just like when we extended models in Chapter 3, Models, Relations, and Inheritance, we can extend view classes in the exact same way, whereas function-based view methods cannot provide this ability. Two templates have been provided with the source code of this book to be used in the next exercise. These two files are the exact same file as the my_vehicle.html file, except that the title of the <h1> tag in each has been changed to VehicleView Class 1 and VehicleView Class 2 so that when we run the following examples, we can see the differences between them.

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