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Document customizing express.json() size limit for specific routes #1421

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In the following issue, it is requested to customize the body size limit for express.json() dynamically based on the API route:

@marbuser (Apr 11, 2019):
I've got some endpoints and 90% of them I want to have a limit of around '2MB'. However, there is 1 specific route, my upload route, where I want to have an upload limit of '10MB'.

There are some solutions provided in the thread, but maybe a simpler option would be this one inspired by this Stack Overflow answer:

// Parse application/json
// - limit on /upload: 5MB
// - limit on other routes: default of 100KB
app.use('/upload', express.json({ limit: '5mb' }));
app.use(/^(?!\/upload$)/, express.json());

This may be a nice example to document on the express.json() docs section

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