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Build an IP Based Rate Limiting Module in Node.js with Typescript
I recently wrote a very simple IP address based rate limit module called rt-limit to throttle requests for this blog. Although rate limiting is more commonly done on reverse proxies like Nginx and Apache, being able to manage traffic on your own back-end server is always more flexible.