#119 Implementing Rate Limiting | Authentication & Authorization | A Complete NODE JS Course

In this lecture, we are going to add another security measure which can prevent attacks like brute force attack & denial of service attack. For that, we are going to implement rate limiting feature in our application.

Using rate limiting, we can limit number of requests coming to the server from the same IP address within a given period of time. Let's learn how we can do that.

[kshirodhati]

Sir, hv a little doubt.. how this limiter counting limiting attempts ... Can we use it for 10000 of user base app or have to design our own rate limiter storing ip addresses at DB ??

[hk]

in previous chapter we send token in cookie... and we will get token with cookie... does we need to make change in protect middleware to get token from cookie??

[mahmoudkhalid]

How can I know the number of requests that make the server crash so I can put my limit of requests in a period