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Req Rate Limit

Limiter middleware for Express. It's return a status 429 with message 'Too Many Requests' when is exceed the limit established.

Storage

It module use an object json for keep data of request ip while complete a timeout configurable.

Install

$ npm install --save req-rate-limit

Usage

For an API-only server.

// In the follow project you can see how implement it's better
// Click to https://github.com/kevinmgm/back-test-module.git
const limiter = require('req-rate-limit');

// Consider configure in your server express app.set('trust proxy', true);

const limit = limiter({
  timeReset: 60 * 1000, // Time out for reset (60 * 1000 for a minute, 60 * 60 * 1000 for a hour)
  activateLockTimeRequest: true, // Allow lock requests that is doing a number attemps define on attempsRequests
  attempsRequests: 5, // Attempts allow before lock ip
  showLogsIpLock: true, // It allow show log ip locked in a moment of the request
  showLogsAllIpLocks: false, // It allow show logs ip lockeds in a moment of the request
  returnIpLock: false, // Bring back a object with info of ip locked
  returnAllIpLocks: false, // Bring back objects with blocked ip information
});

//  apply to all requests
app.use(limit);

statusCode and message

It return a statusCode 429 with msg Too Many Requests.

req-rate-limit

Usage no npm install needed!