Django Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

Class-Based Views are not always Class-Based Generic Views

Most people confuse Class-Based Views and Class-Based Generic Views. Their names are similar, but they are not the same things. This has led to some interesting misconceptions as follows:

• The only generic views are the ones bundled with Django: Thankfully, this is wrong. There is no special magic in the generic class-based views that are provided. You are free to roll your own set of generic class-based views. You can also use a third-party library such as django-vanilla-views (http://django-vanilla-views.org/), which has a simpler implementation of the standard generic views. Remember that using custom generic views might make your code unfamiliar to others.

• Class-based views ...