How I Learned About Context Processors in Django 🚀

I'm currently working on an online accessories shop with Django. While building the project, I created a navbar that displayed all product categories. At first, the navbar was hard-coded, and everything seemed fine.

Then I realized a problem 🤔.

If I added a new category in the future, I would have to manually update the navbar every time. That didn't feel right.

My first idea was to pass the categories through the context in my product list view. But after thinking more carefully, I noticed another issue: every page that needed the navbar would require the same context data.