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Python Flask Basics Welcome to Flask First Steps

Jakub Farobek
Jakub Farobek
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Posted by Jakub Farobek
Jakub Farobek
1,959 Points

Is a Django View the same as Views in the MVC pattern?

So Love said that in Django, they call Controllers (see MVC) Views. Isn't that confusing? Will this be a headache if I ever want to learn web development in Rails or any other language?

Thanks, Love!

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

Yes Django-Views are can be considered MVC-Controllers. Instead of MVC, Django uses an "MTV" organization: Model, Template, View. It's just terminology. Here is a longer post from Django Docs.

Jakub Farobek
Jakub Farobek
1,959 Points
Jakub Farobek
Jakub Farobek
1,959 Points

I see that it is just terminology but it confuses newbies if there are two similar terminologies where the meanings of the same words are different. :) Especially, if you are also learning stuff like AngularJS.