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How to do it...

Perform the following steps to implement a REST API to create, read, update, and delete blog posts for our web application:

1. First, we will create a new /middleware/rest.js middleware to serve as a factory class of sorts to consistently format our REST API resources. Our middleware will take a resource ID and a store object, which will contain our content. We'll then define a helper function called find, which we will use to look up content in our store using an ID. Our resource-router-middleware configuration will contain all the callbacks for our REST API HTTP methods:

var resource = require('resource-router-middleware');module.exports = function(resourceId, store) {  var find = function(id, callback) {    var itemPosition ...