TemplateView - Class Based Generic View Django Last Updated : 25 May, 2021 Summarize Comments Improve Suggest changes Share Like Article Like Report Django provides several class based generic views to accomplish common tasks. The simplest among them is TemplateView. It Renders a given template, with the context containing parameters captured in the URL. TemplateView should be used when you want to present some information on an HTML page. TemplateView shouldn’t be used when your page has forms and does creation or update of objects. In such cases, FormView, CreateView, or UpdateView is a better option. TemplateView is most suitable in the following cases: Showing ‘about us’ like pages that are static and hardly need any context. Though, it is easy to use context variables with TemplateView.Showing pages that work with GET requests and don’t have forms in them. Explanation : Illustration of How to use TemplateView 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 ? Let’s write a view using base class view View and then modify it to use TemplateView. TemplateView would help us avoid several lines of code. Enter the following code into views.py file of geeks app. Python3 from django.views.generic.base import View from django.shortcuts import render class AboutUs(View): def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): return render(request, "aboutus.html") Create a folder named templates inside the geeks app and then create a file named aboutus.html inside templates folder.Enter the following code into aboutus.html file. HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>AboutUs</title> </head> <body> <h2>Welcome To GFG</h2> </body> </html> Enter the Following code into urls.py of geeksforgeeks project folder. Python3 from django.contrib import admin from django.urls import path from geeks.views import AboutUs urlpatterns = [ path('admin/', admin.site.urls), path('',AboutUs.as_view(),name="aboutus") ] Run below three commands to see the output.Python manage.py makemigrations Python manage.py migrate Python manage.py runserverSame output can be achieved using TemplateView , replace code of views.py file of geeks app by given below code. Python3 from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView class AboutUs(TemplateView): template_name = 'aboutus.html' Let’s check what is there on http://localhost:8000/ Output - Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article TemplateView - Class Based Generic View Django M muskan24r Follow Improve Article Tags : Python Python Django Django-views Practice Tags : python Similar Reads UpdateView - Class Based Views Django UpdateView refers to a view (logic) to update a particular instance of a table from the database with some extra details. It is used to update entries in the database, for example, updating an article at geeksforgeeks. We have already discussed basics of Update View in Update View – Function based V 3 min read ListView - Class Based Views Django List View refers to a view (logic) to display multiple instances of a table in the database. We have already discussed the basics of List View in List View – Function based Views Django. Class-based views provide an alternative way to implement views as Python objects instead of functions. They do n 4 min read FormView - Class Based Views Django FormView refers to a view (logic) to display and verify a Django Form. For example, a form to register users at Geeksforgeeks. Class-based views provide an alternative way to implement views as Python objects instead of functions. They do not replace function-based views, but have certain difference 3 min read Class based views - Django Rest Framework Class-based views help in composing reusable bits of behavior. Django REST Framework provides several pre-built views that allow us to reuse common functionality and keep our code DRY. In this section, we will dig deep into the different class-based views in Django REST Framework. This article assum 12 min read Update View - Function based Views Django Update View refers to a view (logic) to update a particular instance of a table from the database with some extra details. It is used to update entries in the database for example, updating an article at geeksforgeeks. So Update view must display the old data in the form and let user update the data 4 min read Like