Summary

This chapter covered the core infrastructure required to handle an HTTP request to our website. The request is first mapped via URL patterns to an appropriate view. Parameters from the URL are also passed into the view to specify the object displayed on the page. The view is responsible for compiling any necessary information to display on the website, and then passes this dictionary through to a template, which renders the information as HTML code that can be returned as a response to the user. We covered both class- and function-based views and learned about the Django template language and template inheritance. We created two new pages for the book review application, one displaying all the books present and the other being the book details view page. In the next chapter, we will learn about Django admins and superusers, registering models, and performing create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations using the admin site.