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Comment by streeter | Hacker News Reader

How did django-annoying (https://bitbucket.org/offline/django-annoying) not make the list? I find the stuff in django-annoying to be crucial on any Django project I do (the render_to() and @ajax_request decorators especially).

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If you like render_to, you might also like TemplateView http://django.me/TemplateView Class Based Views are awesome when you get the hang of them.

How do you add decorators to a class based view? I find this annoying:

    dashboard = login_required(DashboardView.as_view())

Takes the fun out of decorators for me.

https://gist.github.com/1075119

I tested out the class based views in Django 1.3, but decided that I didn't like the complexity that all the MixIns added. I was constantly having to remember which things each MixIn added to my class. I found it simpler to just do function based views with several decorators.

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