Have you notice something like this in your url. It sometimes look like this 👇

https : //x.com/Kunalmadoliya

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and sometimes like this 👇

https : //www.x.com/in/kunal-madoliya-0378133b4/?skipRedirect=true

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Technically there are no difference in both. What is the advantage of one is disadvantage for the other

In this blog topic to cover :

What URL parameters are

What query parameters are

Differences between them

When to use params vs query

URL / Path parameters

We use URL parameter to access a specific resource on the server. For example if you want to find a user by ID.

We can simply implement this simple code with a URL parameter

app . get ( " /:username " , ( req , res ) => { res . send ( req . params .…