Enhance Security for NodeJS Applications

1. Limiting the number of requests 🎀🎀🎀

Limiting the number of requests (from a single IP address within a specific timeframe) is a method used to prevent denial-of-service (DOS, DDOS) attacks or brute force attacks that could overload your server.

If you're using Express, integrating this is quite straightforward using the express-rate-limit package.

import * as express from 'express'
import helmet from 'helmet'
import expressRateLimit from 'express-rate-limit'

const app = express()
const limiter = expressRateLimit({
  windowMs: 10 …

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