---
title: "uri-starts-with"
description: "Optimize page routing by checking if the URI starts with specific expressions using uri-starts-with. (Gitana 4.0)"
product: "Gitana"
version: "4.0"
url: "/documentation/gitana/4.0/developers/ui-dev/evaluators/uri-starts-with"
---

# uri-starts-with

If the currently dispatched page URI starts with a given URI (with tokenized expressions).

```
{
    "evaluator": "uri-starts-with",
    "condition": "{uri}"
}
```