Is Django better to check user.is_authenticated in views.py or in a template?

Question

I have a homepage on which I want to display the login form when the user is not logged in or displays a list of items that belong to this user if he is already logged in.

So far I have come up with 2 methods:

• Check if the user is authenticated in views.py and displays the corresponding view (in my views.py):

  if request.user.is_authenticated():
      return render(request, 'items.html')
  else
      return render(request, 'login.html')
  

• Check directly in the template and create the appropriate HTML for each case (in my index.html):

  {% if user.is_authenticated %}
      HTML for my items list
  {% else %}
      HTML for my login form
  {% endif %}
  

Question

So, which method handles this better? Are these methods very different in performance? Is there any standard we need to handle in views.py or in the template itself?

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{% if user.is_authenticated %}
    <h3>Welcome</h3>
{% else %}
    <a href="/path/to/login">Login</a>
{% endif %}

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