Chapter 8. Raising Your Productivity with CBV
Class-based views (CBVs) are views generated from models. In simple terms, we can say that these are like ModelForms, in that they simplify the view and work for common cases.
CRUD is the short form we use when referring to the four major operations performed on a database: create, read, update, and delete. CBV is the best way to create pages that perform these actions very quickly.
Creating forms for creating and editing a model or database table data is a very repetitive part of the job of a developer. They may spend a lot of time in doing this properly (validation, prefilled fields, and so on). With CBV, Django allows a developer to perform CRUD operations for a model in less than 10 minutes. They ...
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