Django Templates for CRUD Views

Creating Django Templates for CRUD Operations

Unlike views.py, you need to create different files for each view. This lesson will explain how to prepare the template html files.

Create the templates directory and register in settings.py

In Chapter 2, we already explained about the templates directory. This part is a recap of what we have already explained.

Create the templates directory directly under the project directory (the startproject command won't create the directory)
Register the path of the templates directory in the settings.py so that Django can recognize the location of template files

Create a subdirectory for the app

As you may need HTML template files for other apps under the same project, it is better to create a subdirectory for the app-specific template files.

Create HTML templates for each view

Create HTML files for each generic view. The illustration below is an example of template files and directory structure – five HTML files are under the app_a directory.

Practice

In this practice, we'll create five HTML files for each of the following views created in a previous section.

CourseList
CourseDetail
CourseCreate
CourseUpdate
CourseDelete

1. Create a subdirectory named employee_learning

We already created the templates directory in Chapter 2. Create a subdirectory named employee_learning under the templates directory. You can create a subdirectory with a right-click on the templates directory in VS code. Or go to the templates directory in your terminal and run the mkdir command.

Command Line - INPUT