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How can Django can list data with just some small changes

How can Django can list data with just some small changes

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How can Django can list data with just some small changes

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- [Instructor] So far, you've learned how to create views using functions. However, Django has a couple more features that we can leverage to get things even simpler. Welcome to Class-Based Views. Most views have similar patterns, and reinventing the wheel is something nobody really wants. Class-based views are extensive classes that implement typical view behavior and you just need to override a few things to make it do what you want. This will allow us to avoid the boring work and focus on the things that are unique to our project. Let's go back to our code and change our views that are function-based to the ones that are class-based and see in detail how class-based views work. The first view we made was in the home app, so let's go back and change it. The only thing we need to do here is display a template. So we can do that by using the class-based view template view class. So let's in here import from django.views.generic. import TemplateView. Okay, so now we can create a new…

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