View

Now, we will write the Hello, World! page in the Django project.

First, we need to implement the hello_world in our new app. Open the app folder, find the views.py file, and open this file. Look at the file location:

The views.py file structure:

from django.shortcuts import render

# Create your views here.

Note

The suggested render function will be described later.

Views should return the HttpResponse object.

Now, let's write the hello_world_view function (view).

First, import the HTTP response object:

from django.http import HttpResponse

HttpResponse object should be imported from django.http module.

The HttpResponse object converts the Python string to HTML:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render

# Create your views here.

def hello_world_view(request):
    return HttpResponse("<h1>Hello, world!</h1>")

To make our view work with a request, it needs to be connected to a specific URL. Let's see how to do this in the next chapter.