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Express Middleware
Roman edited this page Oct 29, 2018
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const rateLimiter = new RateLimiterMemory({
points: 5, // 5 requests
duration: 1, // per second
});
const rateLimiterMiddleware = (req, res, next) => {
rateLimiter.consume(req.connection.remoteAddress)
.then(() => {
next();
})
.catch((rejRes) => {
res.status(429).send('Too Many Requests');
});
};
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Middlewares and plugins
Migration from other packages
Limiters:
- Redis
- Memory
- DynamoDB
- Prisma
- MongoDB (with sharding support)
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- BurstyRateLimiter
- Cluster
- PM2 Cluster
- Memcached
- RateLimiterUnion
- RateLimiterQueue
Wrappers:
- RLWrapperBlackAndWhite Black and White lists
Knowledge base:
- Block Strategy in memory
- Insurance Strategy
- Comparative benchmarks
- Smooth out traffic peaks
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Usage example
- Minimal protection against password brute-force
- Login endpoint protection
- Websocket connection prevent flooding
- Dynamic block duration
- Different limits for authorized users
- Different limits for different parts of application
- Block Strategy in memory
- Insurance Strategy
- Third-party API, crawler, bot rate limiting