What is the best way to organize views in Django?

Question

I have views.py in my study project where I group it from methods to represent views (methods that return Httpresponse), to generic views based on class (such as Detailview, Listview).

I was thinking: what are the best practices to organize the views referring to a certain model without spreading them through an entire file? I can somehow group them into a single class and organize my file?

Answer 1

I’m trying to understand your question. If it’s about the organization you can split your.py views into small modules if it gets too big.

original views.py follows below:

# (imports)
...

def view1(request):
    pass

def view2(request):
   pass

class IndexView(TemplateView):
    template = 'core/index.html'

index = IndexView.as_view()
...

You can have that same structure in a more organized way. Below is an example of how to modularize the same views.py.

views/
  __init__.py
  base.py
  cbvs.py

base py. :

# (imports)
...

def view1(request):
    pass

def view2(request):
   pass

...

cbvs.py :

# (imports)
...

class IndexView(TemplateView):
    template = 'core/index.html'

index = IndexView.as_view()

...

__init__py. :

from base import view1
from base import view2
from cbvs import index

In addition, you can use this same structure to organize other large files in your Django project.