# Convention-Based Routing Convention-based routing derives URLs and handlers from predictable directory names, filenames, or resource structure instead of registering every route manually. AutoSites and earlier WordChirp/Markbox branches used collection names and URI segments compositionally: a collection could automatically expose document, quote, passage, excerpt, and RSS surfaces. Related: [[wiki/Convention over Configuration|Convention over Configuration]], [[wiki/Folder-Native Architecture|Folder-Native Architecture]], [[wiki/Resource Addressing|Resource Addressing]].