Django 4.2 Released

Re:Django 4.2 Released by luxcem on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:00AM (#35436937)

I've used them for quite a while but came back to the old function views. The Generic Views are a mess to understand, the hierarchy tree gets so complicated. See for example : https://ccbv.co.uk/projects/Django/4.1/django.views.generic.... there are 9 classes in the inheritance tree. For every slight change from the default behavior you need to research the documentation, find which method to override…

In the end I have to write a bit more of boilerplate each time (and with tools like copilot it's a non-issue) but it's 10x faster to understand what a view does and how when reading code.

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Re:Django 4.2 Released by Nextgrid on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:51PM (#35446915)

> For every slight change from the default behavior you need to research the documentation, find which method to override…

I just use an IDE which allows me to Ctrl+Click into any symbol and see its implementation and underlying classes (and do so recursively if needed). That saves me from having to lookup the documentation all the time.

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