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Right now, we have this URL to display products by category:
path('search/<slug:category_slug>/', views.category_list, name='category_list'),

Instead of making categories a separate page, let's add a dynamic list of categories to the home page template (below the "about us" section, and any photos/logos we decide to add), that will link to /products/?category=cat-food

The root URL is currently pointed at a route named "all_products." This view is querying products, but it's just serving the home page template. Let's leave the homepage at root, and add a separate /products/ url that shows a list of available products.

We'll want this to have the ability to filter by category (and eventually a search feature)... so, we'll need make /products/ take a "categories" param (i.e., '/products/?category=cat-food'). For UI, we'll want this page to show titles & pictures, and link to the product detail for each.

I'd like products to use a class-based view, so we can use methods and define behavior by verb (GET, POST, PUT, etc.). For example:

...
from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
from django.views.generic.base import View

class ProjectView(View):

def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    # there's a couple way to parse args... this isn't necessarily the best.
    cat = request.GET.get('category')
    data = Products.objects.filter(status='active', category=cat)
    context = {'products': data}
    return TemplateResponse(
               request,
               'template.html',
               context=context,
               status=200)