A Guide to Rate Limiting with Examples in JavaScript
Learn 2 rate limiting strategies you should avoid and 2 strategies you should be using and how to implement them in Node and JavaScript.
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7 min readNov 25, 2019
Rate limiting is an effective and relatively easy way to mitigate security risks. It will not be the only thing you do secure your applications, and it might not even be the most important thing you do to secure your applications, but it should ALWAYS be in your toolbox.