Making Websites with Flask/Routing

What is Routing?
Routing basically means returning something to the user when they visit a specific URL on the site, which is called a route. In the Getting Started tutorial, we had two routes: the root route,, and.

URL Building with Route Variables
URL building is the practice of having dynamically served URLs, that are not built in. An example of this would be if you had a  route, but the URL was formatted like. In a Flask app without route variables, you would manually need to add each user with  many times, but with Route Variables you can just say , and you can show the account page.