Dynamic Routing

Introduction

There are different parameters that can be passed to the route decorator. In static routing, the rule parameter of the route decorator is a simple string. However, in dynamic routing, the rule parameter is not a constant string. Instead, a variable rule is passed to the route(). Let’s figure out how this is done!

Variable rules

In Flask we can add variable rules inside the URL route by using the following syntax: <variable_name>. The variable called variable_name will then be passed to the view function to be used.

An example using variable rules