ajcuddeback/api-rate-limiter

Basic API Rate Limiter using Node.js

API Rate Limiter

Description

This is a very basic API Server that has Rate limiting enabled for the /api route! Set to 2 requests per second.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Instructions
• Questions

Installation

Pre-Requisites

• Install Node

Instructions

• Step 1: Clone this repository

• Step 2: Open project in your terminal and run 'npm install' to install all dependencies

• Step 3: Run npm start to run the server

• Step 4: Open Postman and make an API Request to http://localhost:3000/api

• Step 5: You should get a 200 request reponse

• Step 6: Spam the Request button, when clicked too much, you will get a 400 error with a too many requests message

Questions

Created by: ajcuddeback

If you have any further questions please feel free to contact me at [email protected]

api-rate-limiter's Issues

Implement Redis Caching

• Implement Redis Caching to store IP Adress' for rate limiting.

Create UI to Visualize rate limiting

• Create an interactive UI that will allow a user to click a button along with a counter that shows how many requests they have left in a given amount of time.