diff --git a/src/Webby.hs b/src/Webby.hs
--- a/src/Webby.hs
+++ b/src/Webby.hs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
   -- * Routing and handler functions
   , RoutePattern
+  , Route
   , mkRoute
   , post
   , get
diff --git a/src/Webby/Server.hs b/src/Webby/Server.hs
--- a/src/Webby/Server.hs
+++ b/src/Webby/Server.hs
@@ -182,11 +182,11 @@
 invalidRoutesErr :: [Char]
 invalidRoutesErr = "Invalid route specification: contains duplicate routes or routes with overlapping capture patterns."
 
--- | Use this function, to create a WAI application. It takes a
--- user/application defined `appEnv` data type and a list of
--- routes. If none of the requests match a request, a default 404
--- response is returned.
-mkWebbyApp :: appEnv -> [(RoutePattern, WebbyM appEnv ())] -> IO Application
+-- | Use this function, to create a WAI application. It takes a user/application
+-- defined `appEnv` data type and a list of routes. Routes are matched in the
+-- given order. If none of the requests match a request, a default 404 response
+-- is returned.
+mkWebbyApp :: appEnv -> [Route appEnv] -> IO Application
 mkWebbyApp appEnv routes' = do
     lset <- FLog.newStdoutLoggerSet FLog.defaultBufSize
     return $ mkApp lset routes'
diff --git a/src/Webby/Types.hs b/src/Webby/Types.hs
--- a/src/Webby/Types.hs
+++ b/src/Webby/Types.hs
@@ -62,10 +62,12 @@
 runWebbyM :: WEnv w -> WebbyM w a -> IO a
 runWebbyM env = runResourceT . flip runReaderT env . unWebbyM
 
--- A route pattern specifies a HTTP method and a list of path segments
--- that must match.
+-- | A route pattern represents logic to match a request to a handler.
 data RoutePattern = RoutePattern Method [Text]
                   deriving (Eq, Show)
+
+-- | A route is a pair of a route pattern and a handler.
+type Route env = (RoutePattern, WebbyM env ())
 
 -- | Captures are simply extracted path elements in a HashMap
 type Captures = H.HashMap Text Text
diff --git a/webby.cabal b/webby.cabal
--- a/webby.cabal
+++ b/webby.cabal
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 --
--- hash: 8328c4d0d2c281b35a9d68f0bf6dd439945809c585fed2b86789a8f70cd00ffd
+-- hash: 453573afb20aa05fec6830a6c56f09a3e0ce3770df20ecc25fecb5f278073e09
 
 name:           webby
-version:        0.2.0
+version:        0.3.0
 synopsis:       A super-simple web server framework
 description:    A super-simple, easy to use web server framework inspired by
                 Scotty. The goals of the project are: (1) Be easy to use (2) Allow