Again, drf already handles it! When you pass

template_name

as a kwarg to the

Response

constructor, drf passes

data

(first argument to the constructor) as context to the template behind the scenes if the request if for the content type of

text/html

So:

python
@api_view
def foo_view(request):
  return Response({'message': 'hello!'}, template_name="foo.html")

html
<h1>{{ messgae }}</h1>