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How it works...

With our URL parameters passed through to Mongoose, we can make a variety of queries, including pagination pages and sizes, and finding posts by title:

http://localhost:3000/api/posts?page=3http://localhost:3000/api/posts?size=10&page=1http://localhost:3000/api/posts?title=foobar

Even more impressive, for published dates, we can actually send an entire date range query in the JSON format as a URLEncoded query parameter, and it will return to us only the posts with publish dates between these two ISO dates. For this date range filter to work, the dates must already be formatted in ISO 8601 standard to be successfully parsed by MongoDB:

http://localhost:3000/api/posts?published={"$gte": "2017-05-11T00:08:38.317Z", "$lt": "2017-06-08T11:57:14.963Z"} ...