What is the difference between routes and collections?

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Hi,

Could you please let me know the difference between routes and collection?
I think they seem to do the same thing: Define the URL, what will appear at that URL and under which template. So what is the difference between them and how to choose one?

Thank you in advance.

2

Have you checked out the docs here?

The TL;DR is that

  • routes define URLs for specific templates (among other things)
  • collections define how your content is organized and accessed via URLs
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Thank Ryan, I checked the docs but it is not quite clear to me.
Is it wrong if I have a configuration like this:

routes:
  /blog/: blog
    
collections:
  /blog/:
    permalink: /blog/{slug}/
    template: blog
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You only need the collections key as that sets up the URL and the collection

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