List View – Function based Views Django

List View refers to a view (logic) to list all or particular instances of a table from the database in a particular order. It is used to display multiple types of data on a single page or view, for example, products on an eCommerce page. Django provides extra-ordinary support for List Views but let’s check how it is done manually through a function-based view. This article revolves around list View which involves concepts such as Django Forms, Django Models. 
For List View, we need a project with some models and multiple instances which will be displayed.
 

Django List View – Function Based Views

Illustration of How to create and use List view using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks. 
 

Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django. 
 

• How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?
• How to Create an App in Django ?

After you have a project and an app, let’s create a model of which we will be creating instances through our view. In geeks/models.py, 
 

After creating this model, we need to run two commands in order to create Database for the same. 
 

Python manage.py makemigrations
Python manage.py migrate

Now let’s create some instances of this model using shell, run form bash, 
 

Python manage.py shell

Enter following commands 
 

>>> from geeks.models import GeeksModel
>>> GeeksModel.objects.create(
                       title="title1",
                       description="description1").save()
>>> GeeksModel.objects.create(
                       title="title2",
                       description="description2").save()
>>> GeeksModel.objects.create(
                       title="title2",
                       description="description2").save()

Now we have everything ready for back end. Verify that instances have been created from http://localhost:8000/admin/geeks/geeksmodel/ 
 

Let’s create a view and template for the same. In geeks/views.py,
 

Create a template in templates/list_view.html, 
 

Let’s check what is there on http://localhost:8000/ 
 

Bingo..!! list view is working fine. One can also display filtered items or order them in different orders based on various features. Let’s order the items in reverse manner. 
In geeks/views.py, 
 

order_by to arrange instances in different orders

Now visit http://localhost:8000/ 
 

filter to show selective instances

Let’s create a different instance to show how filter works. Run 
 

Python manage.py shell

Now, create another instance, 
 

from geeks.models import GeeksModel
GeeksModel.objects.create(title = "Naveen", description = "GFG is Best").save()

Now visit http://localhost:8000/ 
 

Let’s filter this data to those containing word “title” in their title. 
In geeks/views.py, 
 

Now visit http://localhost:8000/ again,