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How to do it...

Let's follow these steps to add query parameters to our Express /api/post REST endpoint to support pagination. We will also implement some advanced filtering queries, including date range filtering to our API:

1. First, we'll extend the list method of our /middleware/rest.js middleware to parse query parameters for _size and _page from our REST API URL parameters. The underscores are useful to denote that these properties are URL parameters, instead of Mongoose Query API parameters. Whether these properties are provided or not, we will set default values for them using a ternary operator, and append them sequentially to our main query operation:

...module.exports = function(resourceId, store, serialize, deserialize, middleware) ...