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. Django calls its ready-made view classes generic views. You set one up with class attributes such as template_name, 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

Show the ready template jobs/templates/jobs/about.html at /about/.

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

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})