Django Unleashed

5.1 Introduction

In Chapter 2: Hello World: Building a Basic Webpage in Django, we saw that the Controller is the only part of Django actually required to make a webpage (the relevant diagram is reprinted in Figure 5.1). However, we immediately ran into problems: we had no way to easily fetch and format data. Because the main function of websites revolves around data, the Controller is often described as the glue between Model and View despite the Controller’s independence.

Figure 5.1: Application of MVC Architecture Diagram

In this chapter, we return to the Controller, seen earlier in Chapter 2 and Chapter 4: Rapidly Producing Flexible HTML ...