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Views

Introduction

Views contain all the HTML that you’re application will use to render to the user. Unlike Django, views in Masonite are your HTML templates. All views are located inside resources/templates

All views are rendered with Jinja2 so can use all the Jinja2 code you are used to. An example view looks like:

<!-- View stored in resources/templates/helloworld.html -->

<html>
  <body>
    <h1> Hello {{ 'world' }}</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Creating Views

Since all views are located in resources/templates, we can use simply create all of our views manually here or use our craft command tool. To make a view just run:

$ craft view hello

This will create a template under resources/templates/hello.html.

Calling Views

Helper Function

There are several ways we can call views in our controllers. The first recommended way is using the view() function. Masonite ships with a HelpersProvider Service Provider. This provider will add several new built in functions to your project. These helper functions can be used as shorthand for several commonly used classes such as the View and Request class. See the Helper Functions documentation for more information.

One of the helper functions is the view() function which is accessible like any other built in Python function.

We can call views in our controllers like so:

def show(self):
    return view('dashboard')

This will return the view located at resources/templates/dashboard.html. We can also specify a deeper folder structure like so:

def show(self):
    return view('profiles/dashboard')

This will look for the view at resources/templates/profiles/dashboard.html

From The Container

The View class is loaded into the container so we can retrieve it in our controller methods like so:

def show(self, View):
    return View('dashboard')

This is exactly the same as using the helper function above. So if you choose to code more explicitly, the option is there for you.

Passing Data to Views

A lot of the time we’ll need to pass in data to our views. This data is passed in with a dictionary that contains a key which is the variable that the view will with the corresponding value. We can pass data to the function like so:

def show(self, Request):
    return view('dashboard', {'id': Request.param('id')})

Remember that by passing in parameters like Request to the controller method, we can retrieve objects from the IOC container. Read more about the IOC container in the Service Container documentation.

This will send a variable named id to the view which can then be rendered like:

<!-- View stored in resources/templates/dashboard -->

<html>
  <body>
    <h1> {{ id }} </h1>
  </body>
</html>