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Web Development with Django

You're reading from   Web Development with Django Learn to build modern web applications with a Python-based framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212505
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Preface
1. Introduction to Django 2. Models and Migrations FREE CHAPTER 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

Templates

In Exercise 3.01, Implementing a Simple Function-Based View, we saw how to create a view, do the URL mapping, and display a message in the browser. But if you recall, we hardcoded the HTML message Welcome to Bookr! in the view function itself and returned an HttpResponse object, as follows:

message = f"<html><h1>Welcome to Bookr!</h1> "\
"<p>{Book.objects.count()} books and counting!</p></html>"
return HttpResponse(message)

Hardcoding of HTML inside Python modules is not a good practice, because as the content to be rendered in a web page increases, so does the amount of HTML code we need to write for it. Having a lot of HTML code among Python code can make the code hard to read and maintain in the long run.

For this reason, Django templates provide us with a better way to write and manage HTML templates. Django's templates not only work with static HTML content but also dynamic HTML templates.

Django...

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