4.9 Putting It All Together
In this chapter, we discovered how Django implements the View portion of the Model-View-Controller architecture. Django allows the developer to easily create data to be displayed via the template system. The system comprises two parts: the actual template files and the template loader and renderer.
Template files are documents external to Django that act as a blueprint or mold for data. Templates allow the developer to write documents in a markup language, such as HTML, with gaps in them, which Django fills in. The developer instructs Django on how to fill these gaps via a domain-specific template language. The Django template language includes variables, template filters to modify the variables, and template tags ...
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