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Routing

Function routing shares the same syntax as page routing.

Static Routing

Both top-level and nested routes are supported.

  • src/api/top-level.js => /api/top-level
  • src/api/directory/foo.js => /api/directory/foo

index.js files are routed at their directory path e.g. src/api/users/index.js => /api/users

Dynamic Routing

Param routes

Use square brackets ([ ]) in the file path to mark dynamic segments of the URL.

So to create an Function for fetching user information by userId:

Dynamic routes share syntax with client-only routes.

Splat routes

Gatsby also supports splat (or wildcard) routes, which are routes that will match anything after the splat. These are less common, but still have use cases.

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