Template View – Class Based Generic View Django

Django provides several class based generic views to accomplish common tasks. The simplest among them is TemplateView. It Renders a given template, with the context containing parameters captured in the URL.

TemplateView should be used when you want to present some information on an HTML page. TemplateView shouldn’t be used when your page has forms and does creation or update of objects. In such cases, FormView, CreateView, or UpdateView is a better option.

TemplateView is most suitable in the following cases:

• Showing ‘about us’ like pages that are static and hardly need any context. Though, it is easy to use context variables with TemplateView.
• Showing pages that work with GET requests and don’t have forms in them.

class index(TemplateView):
	template_name = 'blogpost/index.html'

Create a folder named templates inside the blogpost app, create another folder with the same name as the app i.e, blogpost inside the templates folder and then create a file named index.html inside templates folder.

Lets write the above view using base class view View.

from django.views.generic.base import View
from django.shortcuts import render
 
class AboutUs(View):
        def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
                 return render(request, "index.html")

• Enter the Following code into urls.py of the project folder.

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('index', views.index.as_view(), name='index'),
]