Query Parameters vs Route Parameters
Route Parameters in "Dynamic Routes" In this section, you learned about "dynamic routes" that utilize route parameters to extract dynamic values from the URL path. For example: router.get('/restaurants/:id', ...) In this example, id is a route parameter that will hold different values when this URL / path is visited. For example, if a user enters /restaurants/r1, id will be equal to r1. Route parameters are super useful as they allow us to use one single route to load different data based on the concrete route parameter value. It is important to understand that the route parameter (:id in the above example) is a key part of the URL path. Just /restaurants would NOT be handled by the above route for example - because it's missing a value for the route parameter. Query Parameters We also learned about a concept called "query parameters" in this section. It's easy to mix up "query parameters" and "route parameters" but the...
