I'm going to go over a quick overview of Regular Expressions. I'll try to make the syntax fast, because using them is the fun stuff.
We'll be working with https://regex101.com
RegEx stands for Regular Expression. A Regular Expression is a pattern-matching scheme. We use it to determine whether a string follows certain patterns. We'll often see these used to validate form input, and Single Page Applications may use them to compare the URL with patterns tell it what pages to serve.