Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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To integrate caching for your specific views, perform the following steps:

1. Set CACHES in the project settings, as follows:

# myproject/settings/_base.pyCACHES = {    "redis": {        "BACKEND": "redis_cache.RedisCache",        "LOCATION": [get_secret("CACHE_LOCATION")],        "TIMEOUT": 60, # 1 minute        "KEY_PREFIX": "myproject",    },}CACHES["default"] = CACHES["redis"]

2. Make sure that you have CACHE_LOCATION set to "localhost:6379" in your secrets or environment variables.
3. Modify the views of the viral_videos app, as follows:

# myproject/apps/viral_videos/views.pyfrom django.shortcuts import renderfrom django.views.decorators.cache import cache_pagefrom django.views.decorators.vary import vary_on_cookie@vary_on_cookie@cache_page(60)def viral_video_detail(request, ...