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Last Updated: 2025-11-03
When refactoring a route from dashboard_{path,url} to
seller_dashboard_{path,url}, it was annoying to search for both possibilities
path and url). Error-prone too.
Since there's not really any good reason to have both in my application, what
with multiple domains and the need to use _url and not _path in emails, I
should stick to url everywhere.
Update: Another complication to consider is multi-domain websites. While path
can be easier for navigating within a domain, url is gonna be needed anyway
for moving across domains (e.g. from the .com to the .co.uk site)