Lets see how to respond with an html in django. Till now we have seen how to respond to a rest call with a json response. But we will also need to respond to a request with an html/css/javascript. Lets create a small django app to demonstrate the same.
GIT URL – https://github.com/letsblogcontent/Python/tree/master/TemplateDjangoProject
Step 1
Open command terminal and create a directory “TemplateDjangoProject” and navigate into that project
Step 2
First install Django with command “pip install django”
Step 3
Create a project with command “django-admin startporject testproject . “
Step 4
Now create app with command “python manage.py testapp”
Step 5
Add the newly created app in the settings.py file of the testproject folder under the installed_apps array as below to register our new app
Step 6
Now, create a new folder templates under the app testapp folder and create index.html file with content as below
Step 7
Create a function in the views.py file of the app testapp as below
Step 8
update the urls.py(create if not present) file as below. Here we are mapping our url to the function we created in the views.py file in the previous step
Step 9
Now update the urls.py of the our testproject to include the urls created in our app.
Step 10
We are done. Now run the server executing the command “python manage.py runserver” and then navigate to the deploy url to see below response from the server
letsblogcontent.wordpress.com 