Throttle Titan Middleware

A lightweight and type-safe rate limiting middleware for Express applications.

Installation

npm install throttle-titan-middleware

Usage

import { createRateLimitMiddleware } from 'throttle-titan-middleware';


// Create the middleware with your desired configuration
const rateLimitMiddleware = createRateLimitMiddleware({
    windowMs: 1000, // Time window in milliseconds
    limit: 30      // Maximum requests allowed per window
});

// Apply globally to all routes
app.use(rateLimitMiddleware);

// Or apply to specific routes
app.get('/api/sensitive', rateLimitMiddleware, (req, res) => {
    // Your route handler
});

Configuration Options

| Option | Type | Description | |----------|---------|-------------------------------------------| | windowMs | number | The time window in milliseconds | | limit | number | Maximum number of requests allowed per window |

Response

When the rate limit is exceeded, the middleware returns:

{
    "error": "Rate limit exceeded"
}

with HTTP status code 429 (Too Many Requests)

License

MIT