Django View Utils

django-view-utils aims to be a collection of useful utilities for Django views. Mainly function based views.

Features

@view decorator

The @view decorator is a simple way to create a view function and register it with a URL.

# <app>/views.url

from django_view_utils import view


@view(paths="/hello-world/", name="hello-world")
def my_view(request):
    ...


# <app>/urls.py

from django.urls import path
from django_view_utils import include_view_urls

urlpatterns = [
    path("", include_view_urls()),
]

By default, django-view-utils will look for a views.py file in your app.

This can be disabled by setting DJANGO_VIEW_UTILS_AUTO_DISCOVER to False, then registering view modules is up to you by supplying the modules keyword argument to include_view_urls.

@view decorator options

Conveniently it also supports login_required, staff_required and permission_required.

@view(paths="/hello-world/", name="hello-world", login_required=True)
def my_view(request):
    ...

@view(paths="/hello-world/", name="hello-world", staff_required=True)
def my_view(request):
    ...

@view(paths="/hello-world/", name="hello-world", permissions=["myapp.can_do_something"])
def my_view(request):
    ...

Inspiration

This decorator is very much inspired by the idea of "locality of behaviour" by Carson Gross (creator of HTMX): https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/.

It also bears resemblance to the @app.route decorator in Flask, the @app.<HTTP method> decorator in FastAPI and probably many other Python web frameworks.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• License

Installation

pip install django-view-utils

Development

git clone
cd django-view-utils
pip install hatch
hatch run tests:cov
hatch run tests:typecheck

License

django-view-utils is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.