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Ever wonder how websites load specific pages, like your personal profile or a product detail, based on the URL? That’s dynamic routing at work! In this short, 60-second video, we’ll quickly explain how dynamic routing allows your app to generate different pages based on the data or user input—like /profile/john or /product/123.

Unlike static routes in which each and every URL is hard-coded, dynamic routes adapt to change making your app a lot more fluid and interactive. Whether you are using React, Next.js or some other framework altogether, this quick guide will show you how dynamic routing works and why it's so handy for things like blogs, online stores, or user dashboards.
So, if you are new to development or simply looking for a refresher, check out this bite-sized video to learn the basics of dynamic routing and how you can make the user experience even better.
Dynamic routing creates flexible and responsive URLs for your Web application, which will change with the inputs from users or with the characteristics of data. Unlike traditional forced routes to each page such as a menu having few set options, it lets your application create pages dynamically. In that way, you can have one route work for many variations in different scenarios, making your application smart and friendly.

Here is how Dynamic Routing works:
Flexible URLs: You would have an application for social media. You could now have a /user/:username. Now when someone hits /user/john_doe, your app knows it needs to show the profile for John Doe. You get a unique URL for each and every user without having to set up a separate route for each and every profile.

Handling Parameters: Dynamic routing enables your application to take parameters from the URL. For example, if one has a URL that looks something like /product/123, the 123 could be used to fetch details regarding that particular product. That comes in mighty handy for any e-commerce site, blogs, or just about any application where content varies based on interaction with the user.

Content changing With dynamic routes, actual content to be rendered for any page can indeed change based on the URL. For instance, when a user clicks on a particular link to a certain blog post, then it fetches and renders the pertinent post contents based on its very unique identifier contained within the URL.

Less redundancy: You don't have to write so much different code for every page. Instead, dynamic routing employs a single component that will respond in displaying different types of data. This will keep your code clean and easy to maintain.

Inbuilt framework support-a modern framework like React (with React Router) or Next.js allows easy implementation of dynamic routing. They provide tools and features that will help you define these flexible routes without too much hassle.

Why Use Dynamic Routing?
User Profiles: To go to his profile, he only needs to access the URL such as /user/jane_smith and the application will be rendered to have knowledge of Jane's details.
Product Details: Each product on an e-commerce website would have a separate page, like /product/456, for which the application would automatically fetch product details about it.
Each blog post will be available under the URL, such as /blog/how-to-cook, so users can easily find what they are looking for. And, in a nutshell, dynamic routing is your clever assistant in the web app, who well knows what content it has to serve out to the users according to their intent. It helps improve the experience that one sees when navigating through the web app because there is less repetition in the code; therefore, developers can focus more on good features rather than static routes!

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