Rate Limiter

Rate limiter is an express middleware that keeps your users from abusing your web server by introducing a limit on the number of requests they can make in a minute. This middleware uses a Token Bucket strategy, rejecting any request if the token count in a corresponding bucket is less than zero instead of forwarding it to your app which may include some time-consuming computations.

Usage

const express = require('express');
const rateLimiter = require('rate-limiter');

router.post('/login', rateLimiter({
	scheme: 'user.id',
	tag: 'auth',
	price: 5,
	redirect: true,
	action: (req, res) => console.log('Rate exceeded for user' + req.user.id)
}), async (req, res) => {
	res.send('Example webpage');
});

Available options

• price - How many tokens are spent per request (default: 1)
• rate - How many new tokens are added per minute (default: 10)
• initial - How many tokens each bucket has when created, can exceed maximum number (default: 10)
• max - Maximum amount of tokens (default: 30)
• min - Minimum amount of tokens (default: -10)
• scheme - Field of the request to be used as a bucket id, supports nesting (default: 'ip' for the res.ip field which limits based upon user IP)
• tag - A tag to separate different actions (default: null)
• redirect - Indicates whether to end the request or redirect back (default: false)
• action - A callback to be run when rate exceeded (default: null). Has the following signature: (req, res) => {};