Routing Glossary

Browse 16 routing terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

16 Routing Terms

AI Orchestrator
A system component that routes tasks among models, tools, or services and manages the overall execution flow of an AI application.
AI Router
A component that decides which model, provider, region, or path should handle a given AI request based on cost, latency, policy, or capability needs. AI...
API Gateway
API Gateway is a server that acts as the single entry point for all client requests to a backend system composed of multiple microservices. Instead of clients...
Custom Router
A routing component built or heavily customized to direct requests, navigation, or messages according to project-specific rules. Custom routers are often...
Gating Network
A network component that decides which expert, branch, or submodule should handle a given input in architectures such as mixture-of-experts models.
LLM Router
A routing component that decides which large language model should handle a request based on task type, cost, latency, policy, or capacity. LLM routers help...
Multi-Hop
Involving multiple sequential network relays, tunnels, or pivot points between origin and destination rather than a single direct path. In security, multi-hop...
Navigation
The system of routes, links, and transitions that enables users to move between views or screens in an application — encompassing URL-based routing in web apps...
Navigation Guard
A hook in a client-side router — most prominently Vue Router's `beforeEach`, `beforeEnter`, and `beforeRouteLeave` — that intercepts navigation events and can...
Nested Route
A route definition that is declared as a child of another route, causing its component to render inside the parent route's layout via an outlet or...
Path
A string that specifies the location of a file, directory, or resource — either as an absolute path from the root (e.g., /usr/bin/node) or a relative path from...
Radix Tree
A space-optimized trie (prefix tree) in which each node with a single child is merged with that child, so edges represent multi-character strings rather than...
Tool Selection
The act of choosing the most appropriate tool for a given query, step, or task. Good tool selection helps avoid wasted actions and reduces the chance of wrong...
URL Rewriting
A server-side technique that transparently transforms an incoming URL into a different internal URL before the request is processed, commonly used to present...
URL Router
The component of a web framework or server that matches an incoming request's URL path (and often its HTTP method) against a set of registered route patterns...
Vue Router
The official routing library for Vue.js that maps URL paths to Vue components, supporting nested routes, dynamic route parameters, navigation guards, lazy...

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