Django Nested Views

Question

I\'m developing an internal application and I would like to be able to nest my views to keep everything nice and organized. I plan on doing this by keeping different parts of th

Answer 1

I think you are making some confusion on how Django templates and views work together.

In very simple terms a Django template is what defines the HTML code that makes up a page. You can keep your templates very modular and organized; to do this you can use the include template tag or you can use template inheritance, which is a very powerful way to have "modular" templates.

A Django view is basically a function (or a class of you are using class based views) that receive an HTTP request and build an HTTP response. It doesn't make much sense to have "nested" views because usually you have just one HTTP request and you want to build just a response with the HTML needed to display the page.

So I think that you can happily use Django templates to put together all the modules that make up your page (header, sidebar, etc.), but each page should correspond to a single Django view.

Another approach could use AJAX and Javascript to make different HTTP requests and build up the page client-side, but I think that this is not the approach you are considering here.