Routing & SSR
Dynamic routes, API endpoints, and server-side rendering.

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Astro supports both static site generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR). Learn how to create dynamic routes, API endpoints, and control how your pages are rendered.

In this section you’ll master Astro’s routing system, from dynamic routes to server-side rendering and API endpoints.

Lessons in this unit:

0: ▶︎ Introduction
1: Dynamic routing
2: SSR in Astro
3: API endpoints in Astro
4: Prerendering a component in an SSR page
5: Set cookie and redirect
6: Render different HTML based on HTTP method
7: Decide to render a partial or not dynamically in Astro
8: Fetching data from the network