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Basic Template Rendering

The render function takes a request, a template path, and a dictionary (context) to generate the final web page sent to the user.

snippet.py

python

from django.shortcuts import render
 
def home_view(request):
    data = {"site_name": "My Blog", "posts_count": 5}
    # Combines a template with data to produce HTML
    return render(request, "home.html", data)

django

Breakdown

data = {...}

A dictionary containing the information we want to display in the HTML.

render(request, "home.html", data)

The framework function that merges the template file with our data.

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