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There is one more HTTP method supported by resource-router-middleware, that is, the PATCH method. There is quite a lot of confusion about when to use PATCH versus when to use PUT in your REST API. Let's review the official RFC 5789 specification for PATCH and PUT to better understand the difference:

The difference between the PUT and PATCH requests is reflected in the way the server processes the enclosed entity to modify the resource identified by the Request-URI. In a PUT request, the enclosed entity is considered to be a modified version of the resource stored on the origin server, and the client is requesting that the stored version be replaced. With PATCH, however, the enclosed entity contains a set of instructions describing ...