What Are Middleware Classes in Django

In a nutshell, a Middleware is a regular Python class that hooks into Django’s request/response life cycle. Those classes holds pieces of code that are processed upon every request/response your Django application handles.

What is the middleware in Django?

In Django, middleware is a lightweight plugin that processes during request and response execution. Middleware is used to perform a function in the application. The functions can be a security, session, csrf protection, authentication etc.

How do you make Python middleware?

  1. First: The path structure. If you don’t have it you need to create the middleware folder within your app following the structure: yourproject/yourapp/middleware. …
  2. Second: Create the middleware. …
  3. Third: Add the middleware in our ‘settings.py’
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