Django views - time to create!

Time to get rid of the bug we created in the last chapter :)

A view is a place where we put the "logic" of our application. It will request information from the model you created before and pass it to a template that you will create in the next chapter. Views are just Python methods that are a little bit more complicated than the thing we did in the Introduction to Python chapter.

Views are placed in the views.py file. We will add our views to the blog/views.py file.

blog/views.py

OK, let's open up this file and see what's in there:

from django.shortcuts import render

# Create your views here.

Not too much stuff here yet. The simplest view can look like this.

def post_list(request):

    return render(request, 'blog/post_list.html', {})

As you can see, we created a method (def) called post_list that takes request and return a method render that will render (put together) our template blog/post_list.html.

Save the file, go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and see what we have got now.

Another error! Read what's going on now:

This one is easy: TemplateDoesNotExist. Let's fix this bug and create a template in the next chapter!

Learn more about Django views by reading the official documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/http/views/