blog about newsletter Work with me Routing is an application’s way of saying, “there would be something good at that URL, but since it’s hard to store things there I’ll just put it somewhere else and pretend you don’t notice.” It’s a hack, yes, but it’s also an easy system for turning abstract database identifiers into human-friendly URLs. Most application frameworks have a single preferred format
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