How to Rate Limit Your API
Nov 8 · 13 min read

To prevent overloading your servers, adding a rate limit to your API is a good option to solve this problem. We can block excessive requests from being accepted by blocking it with route middleware to prevent route code from executing if too many requests are sent from one IP address.
Express apps can use the express-rate-limit package to limit the number of requests being accepted by the back end app. It is very…


