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
We can call views in our controllers using the view() function. The view() function is imported for us whenever we run the craft controller command. If you did not run the craft controller command then we can import this function using from masonite.view import view
We can call views in our controllers like so:
def show(self):
return view('dashboard')
This will return the view located in 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 inside resources/templates/profiles/dashboard
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 use as well as the value. We can pass data to the function like:
def show(self, Request):
return view('dashboard', {'id': Request.param('id')})
Remember that by passing in values to the controller method, we can retrieve objects from the IOC container. Read more about the IOC container in the "Service Provider" 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>