I am starting learn django,I have made some basic templates/views and want to show the text from a json file located in the assets/jsons folder.The file is called "quotes.json" The content of the json file: { "emp_details": [ { "emp_name": "johnny", "email": "example1.mail@gmail.com", "job_profile": "intern" }, { "emp_name": "gustav", "email": "gustav.empl@gmail.com", "job_profile": "developer" }, { "emp_name": "emily", "email": "emily@gmail.com", "job_profile": "Full Time" } ] } here is the views.py: from django.http import HttpResponse from django.shortcuts import render from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model #from . import models def homepage(request): ##here is where I want to have the json data ##and return it in the render along with the request and 'homepage.html' return render(request,'homepage.html') def about(request): return render(request,'about.html') def users(request): User = get_user_model() users = User.objects.all() return render(request,'users.html',{'users':users}) here is the homepage.html ,the layout.html has css and some navigation buttons it is irrelevant. I literally only want the contents of the json to be shown as text in the homepage. {% extends 'layout.html' %} {% block title %} Home {% endblock %} {% block content %} {% load static %} {% load static %} <script type="text/javascript"> console.log(json1_data); </script> <h1>Home</h1> <h1><p>Welcome {{request.user}}</p></h1> <p>Check out my <a href="/about">About</a> page.</p> <p id="demo"> </p> {% endblock %} I tried importing the file with basic python but did nor really have much success Continue reading...