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These two options are both valid ways to manage routing for the bespoke news section and adhere to best practice. Option B leverages the existing URL rewrite functionality of Adobe Commerce, which allows creating custom URLs for any entity type and storing them in the database. This option requires creating a standard controller route for the news entity type, such as news/article/view/id/i, where i is the news article ID. Then, on saving each news article, a rewrite rule is generated that maps the internal URL to the desired SEO-friendly URL, such as news/{date}/{article_url_key}. The rewrite rule is stored in the url_rewrite table, which is used by the standard router to match and redirect requests.

Option C involves creating a custom router class that implements \Magento\Framework\App\RouterInterface and runs before the standard router in the routing process. The custom router class can match the news portion of the URL and extract the date and URL key parts from it. Then, it can look for and load a news articlethat matches those values using a model or repository class. If a match is found, it can set the request parameters accordingly and dispatch the request to a controller action that renders the news article page.

References:

Routing | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide

URL Rewrites | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide

Custom Router | Adobe Commerce Developer Guide