Class-based views are an alternative way to implement views as Python objects instead of functions. Since a view is a callable that takes a web request and returns a web response, you can also define your views as class methods. Django provides base view classes for this. All of them inherit from the View class, which handles HTTP method dispatching and other common functionalities.
Class-based views offer advantages over function-based views for some use cases. They have the following features:
- Organizing code related to HTTP methods, such as GET, POST, or PUT, in separate methods instead of using conditional branching
- Using multiple inheritance to create reusable view classes (also known as mixins)
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