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# Routing
## Concept
`./api/**/config/routes.json` files define all available endpoints for the clients.
By default Strapi generate endpoints for all your Content Type. More information in the [Content API](../content-api/api-endpoints.md) documentation.
## How to create a route?
You have to edit the `routes.json` file in one of your APIs folders (`./api/**/config/routes.json`) and manually add a new route object into the `routes` array.
**Path —** `./api/**/config/routes.json`.
```json
{
"routes": [
{
"method": "GET",
"path": "/restaurants",
"handler": "Restaurant.find",
"config": {
"policies": []
}
},
{
"method": ["POST", "PUT"],
"path": "/restaurants/:id",
"handler": "Restaurant.createOrUpdate",
"config": {
"policies": []
}
},
{
"method": "POST",
"path": "/restaurants/:id/reservation",
"handler": "Restaurant.reservation",
"config": {
"policies": ["isAuthenticated", "hasCreditCard"]
}
}
]
}
```
- `method` (string): Method or array of methods to hit the route (ex: `GET`, `POST`, `PUT`, `HEAD`, `DELETE`, `PATCH`)
- `path` (string): URL starting with `/` (ex: `/restaurants`)
- `handler` (string): Action to executed when the route is hit following this syntax `<Controller>.<action>`
- `config`
- `policies` (array): Array of policies names or path ([see more](./policies.md))
- `prefix` (string): Set a prefix to this route. Also, it will be loaded into the main router (useful feature for plugin)
## Dynamic parameters
The router used by Strapi allows you to create dynamic routes where you can use parameters and simple regular expressions. These parameters will be exposed in the `ctx.params` object. For more details, please refer to the [PathToRegex](https://github.com/pillarjs/path-to-regexp) documentation.
```json
{
"routes": [
{
"method": "GET",
"path": "/restaurants/:category/:id",
"handler": "Restaurant.findOneByCategory",
"config": {
"policies": []
}
},
{
"method": "GET",
"path": "/restaurants/:region(\\d{2}|\\d{3})/:id", // Only match when the first parameter contains 2 or 3 digits.
"handler": "Restaurant.findOneByRegion",
"config": {
"policies": []
}
}
]
}
```
## Override default route
By default, the main route of the server `/` is pointed to the `/public/index.html` file. To override this behavior, you need to create a route with an empty path `/` in one of your API folder (`/api/**/config/routes.json`).
```json
{
"routes": [
{
"method": "GET",
"path": "/",
"handler": "Controller.name",
"config": {
"policies": []
}
}
]
}
```