URL Slugs

A common use case for explicit routes is the design of slugs or vanity URLs. For example, consider the URL of a repository on Github, http://www.github.com/balderdashy/sailsjs. In Sails, we might define this route at the bottom of our config/routes.js file like so:

  'get /:account/:repo': {
    controller: 'RepoController',
    action: 'show',
    skipAssets: true
  }

In your RepoController's show action, we'd use req.param('account') and req.param('repo') to look up the data for the appropriate repository, then pass it in to the appropriate view as locals. The skipAssets option ensures that the vanity route doesn't accidentally match any of our assets (e.g. /images/logo.png), so they are still accessible.