Chapter 11. Generic Views
Here again is a recurring theme of this book: at its worst, Web development is boring and monotonous. So far, we've covered how Django tries to take away some of that monotony at the model and template layers, but Web developers also experience this boredom at the view level.
Django's generic views were developed to ease that pain. They take certain common idioms and patterns found in view development and abstract them so that you can quickly write common views of data without having to write too much code. In fact, nearly every view example in the preceding chapters could be rewritten with the help of generic views.
Chapter 8 touched briefly on how you'd go about making a view generic. To review, we can recognize certain ...
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