Custom Rate Limier

A simple custom implementation of a token bucket based rate limiter in Node.js and TypeScript for practice.

TODO

• Add key based rate limiting (ip, user, etc)
• Support distributed rate limiting using Redis
• Add implementations of other common algorithms: leaky bucket, sliding window counter, etc.

Server quickstart

Install dependencies

npm install

Set up .env file

PORT=8080

Run in development mode

npm run dev

Call endpoint protected with Rate Limiter

curl localhost:8080

Testing

Run unit and end to end tests using Jest

npm run test