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Web application development. I'm sure plenty of programmers would think of the Layer-3 device that chooses paths to forward packets through nodes to a destination.



> Web application development.

I don't know if I'd make that distinction. Routing certainly gets a lot of use in web application development, but routing at the application level is not web-specific: examples of the pattern can be found in the Android SDK,[1] userland Android/iOS development,[2] and in a number of EIPs.[3]

> I'm sure plenty of programmers would think of the Layer-3 device that chooses paths to forward packets through nodes to a destination.

I don't discount this at all, but I do think it's pretty obvious from the context and the README which type of routing this library provides.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaRo...

[2]: https://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/routable/

[3]: http://www.eaipatterns.com/MessageRoutingIntro.html


> writing documentation for an intended audience

Yes, and web application developers are the intended audience.




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