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Let's follow these steps to add an objectId reference relationship between users and posts:

1. First, let's create a /routes/api/users.js route configuration for working with users. We will also configure its JSON API serialization configuration, including a reference post that will just contain a list of IDs to blog posts written by this user:

var express = require('express');var router = express.Router();var restFactory = require('../../middleware/rest');var Users = require('../../models/users');var serialize = {  transform: function(post) {    return post.toObject();  },  id: '_id',  attributes: ['firstName', 'lastName', 'email', 'role', 'posts'],  posts: {    ref: true  }};var deserialize = {  keyForAttribute: 'dash-case'};module.exports ...