TemplateView

Part of the Class-Based Views section of Coddy's Django journey. Lesson 2 of 18.

The job board needs an About page that only renders a template. Django has a class for that, TemplateView. Its get() is already written: it renders the template named in template_name. A recipe site keeps its FAQ in recipes/templates/recipes/pages/faq.html:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView


class FaqView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "recipes/pages/faq.html"

That is the whole view. You configure a generic view by setting class attributes, and the code Django wrote reads them.

template_name is the name you would pass to render(): the file's path after templates/. Leave out a folder and the page fails with TemplateDoesNotExist. The route is like any class-based view: path("faq/", views.FaqView.as_view(), name="faq").

Challenge

Easy

The template jobs/templates/jobs/about.html is ready. Show it at /about/:

In jobs/views.py, an AboutView, a TemplateView that renders it.
In jobs/urls.py, a route "about/" named about.

Press Run and open /about/: it says Job Board lists jobs at small tech companies in Berlin, Lisbon and London.

Try it yourself

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.views import View

from .models import Job


class HomeView(View):
    def get(self, request):
        count = Job.objects.count()
        return render(request, "jobs/home.html", {"count": count})