The home page is the simplest view in the entire project as all it does is display an HTML page. A CBV was used because there is an easy to use generic view with all the functionality required - the TemplateView.

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Django views are functions that take a requests as input, process the input, and return a response. Common responses include HTML, redirects, errors, images, XML documents, and so forth. Views may be located anywhere in you Django web application, but are typically placed in a file called views.py by convention. 

Django Views

Django has two types of views; function-based views (FBVs), and class-based views (CBVs). Django originally started out with only FBVs, but then added CBVs as a way to templatize functionality so that you didn't have to write boilerplate (i.e. the same code) code over and over again. CBVs would be a way to increase productivity and make it so that you don't have to write as much code.

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