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Welcome back, everyone, to this section of the course on class-based views.

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So far, we've actually only seen functions inside our reviews that profile.

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But just like forms and models, Django provides an entire view class system that is very powerful for

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quickly rendering commonly used views.

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Let's go ahead and see Django developers own reasoning from the documentation on why to use class-based

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views.

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So from the documentation, Django developers say the following writing Web applications can be monotonous

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because we repeat certain patterns again and again, Django tries to take away some of that monotony

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at the model and template layers.

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But web developers also experience this boredom at the view level.

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And let's take a moment to think about that.

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Are there going to be function based views that you use over and over again?

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Well, certainly if you have a model, you're probably going to have views like creating a new instance

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in that model or listing all the instances of that model or deleting or updating based on the view side

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of things.

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Those are going to be commonly used tasks.

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So in that case, Django has views that in a class based form can automatically create those connections

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for you.

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So jingles, generic views were developed to ease that pain.

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They take certain common idioms and patterns found in viewed development and obstruct them so that you

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can quickly write common views of data without having to write too much code.

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That's really where the class based views strength comes from.

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These generic views that you can easily use to just in a few lines of code, connect a model to a template.

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So again, Django CPB's or class based views come with many pre-built generic class views for common

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tasks, such as listing all the values for a particular model in a database.

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This, in particular, is known as the list of you.

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Or maybe you want to create a new instance of a model object that's known as a create view.

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So once we cover the basics of class based views, we're going to go through a quote unquote tour of

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the key generic class based views and cover the few specifics that are important to know when using

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them as a quick note.

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They should be relatively easy to use to understand on their own.

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So towards the end of this section, to be fully honest, it's going to feel maybe slightly repetitive

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because the class space views are really easy to use.

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Once you understand how they work.

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So the very last few lectures, we're going to go quite quickly through those views because they pretty

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much explain themselves.

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So we're going to do here is we're going to talk about the very basics of class space views and then

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we're going to go give you a tour of generic views, starting with a template view.

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That is, just how do I connect a template to a view, to a URL?

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Then we'll talk about list of views, detailed views, great views and elite views, as well as a few

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other ones like update views and form views.

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OK, let's get started.

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I'll see you at the next lecture.