Question

In what order does django execute the various components when it receives a request? Specifically when does the middleware get invoked compared to the function that a route resolves to? And when do context processors get called?

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Answer 1

The middlewares are executed before the view and when returning the response.
The context processor is executed when rendering a template, usually at the end of the view.

So:

(request) -> middleware, from top to bottom -> view -> context_processor -> (response) -> middleware, from bottom to top