--- title: Astro Crash Course #2 - Pages & Routes | daily.dev description: A beginner tutorial on pages and routing in Astro, covering file-based routing, creating pages in the pages directory, subdirectory-based routes, and adding... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/astro-crash-course-2---pages-routes-c7detp6zl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Astro Crash Course #2 - Pages & Routes | daily.dev og:description: A beginner tutorial on pages and routing in Astro, covering file-based routing, creating pages in the pages directory, subdirectory-based routes, and adding... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/astro-crash-course-2---pages-routes-c7detp6zl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/c7DeTp6ZL.png og:image:alt: Astro Crash Course #2 - Pages & Routes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Astro Crash Course #2 - Pages & Routes **[Net Ninja](https://daily.dev/sources/netninja)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A beginner tutorial on pages and routing in Astro, covering file-based routing, creating pages in the pages directory, subdirectory-based routes, and adding navigation links between pages. 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