Summary

In the chapters leading up to this, we covered core routing concepts. In this chapter, we looked at the more advanced techniques available in SvelteKit. These techniques can help us further customize our application and address edge cases. When it comes to routing, we now have an understanding of how we can create optional parameters with default values. We’ve also seen how rest parameters can be used to create a shareable URL of unknown lengths. Matching was shown to be useful for ensuring our application is receiving parameters of the expected types. We also saw how SvelteKit prioritizes certain routing rules over others, which is helpful for understanding the order of execution when a URL matches multiple routes. After covering how to encode special characters in routes, we looked at how we can create layout groups and even break out of the layout hierarchies while keeping application logic intact. If you’ve finished this chapter and feel comfortable with everything...