Project 2 - Super Hero Views

Goals

• Understand how to create views in Django
• Create templates for HTML
• Create class-based generic views
• Hook URL routes to views
• Eliminate code duplication
• Serving static media

Steps

Create the project

• Create a folder week2
• Build a project named Superhero
  • django-admin startproject Superhero config .
• Build an app "hero"
  • python manage.py startapp hero
• Test the blank app

Create view with an HTML template

• Write the template
• Write the view
• Write the url
• Test that the page displays

Create two hero templates

• Build the HTML
• Build the views
• Hook up the URLs
• Test

Add images

• Find images and put them in "static/images"
• Configure static server

Pass data from views to template

• Pass in the name of each hero
• Test

Test the pages

• runserver

• browse to localhost:8000

  Works

  http://127.0.0.1:8000/hero/hulk
  
  http://127.0.0.1:8000/hero/black_widow
  

  Doesn't Work

  http://127.0.0.1:8000/hero/iron_man
  
  http://127.0.0.1:8000/hero
  
  http://127.0.0.1:8000