npm package: @sammaye/rate-limit-mongo
Description: Provides a Mongo store for the express-rate-limit middleware.
Author: 2do2go team
Latest version: 1.3.0

# Rate Limit Mongo

MongoDB store for the [express-rate-limit](https://github.com/nfriedly/express-rate-limit) middleware.

**This is an updated version designed to work with the v6 store interface and native async workflows, requires node v16+**

## Install

```sh
$ npm install --save @sammaye/rate-limit-mongo
```

## Usage

```js
var RateLimit = require('express-rate-limit');
var MongoStore = require('rate-limit-mongo');

var limiter = new RateLimit({
  store: new MongoStore({
    uri: 'mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test_db',
    user: 'mongouser',
    password: 'mongopassword',
    // should match windowMs
    expireTimeMs: 15 * 60 * 1000,
    errorHandler: console.error.bind(null, 'rate-limit-mongo')
    // see Configuration section for more options and details
  }),
  max: 100,
  // should match expireTimeMs
  windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000
});

//  apply to all requests
app.use(limiter);
```


## Configuration

* **uri**: string -- uri for connecting to mongodb, `mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test_db` for example.
Required if collection hasn't been set.

* **collectionName**: string -- name of collection for storing records. Defaults to `expressRateRecords`

* **user**: string -- username for authentication in mongodb

* **password**: string -- password for authentication in mongodb

* **authSource**: string -- db name against which authenticate use. If not set db name from uri will be taken.

* **collection**: object -- mongodb collection instance. Required if uri hasn't been set.

* **connectionOptions**: object -- mongodb connection options. Allows to pass additional connection options to mongodb. The default connection options are `useUnifiedTopology: true`, `useNewUrlParser: true`.

* **expireTimeMs**: integer -- time period, in milliseconds, after which record will be reset (deleted).
Defaults to `60 * 1000`. Notice that current implementation uses on mongodb ttl indexes - background task that removes expired documents runs every 60 seconds. As a result, documents may remain in a collection during the period between the expiration of the document and the running of the background task. See [mongodb ttl indexes doc](https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.6/core/index-ttl/#timing-of-the-delete-operation) for more information.

Note: unless express-tate-limit's headers are disabled, `windowMs` on express-tate-limit's options should be set to the same value as `expireTimeMs` on rate-limit-mongo's options in order for the `Retry-After` header to be correct.

* **resetExpireDateOnChange**: boolean -- indicates whether expireDate should be reset when changed or not.
Defaults to `false`.

* **errorHandler**: function -- function that will be called if error happened
during incr, decrement or resetKey methods. Defaults to `_.noop`.

* **createTtlIndex**: boolean -- defines whether create ttl index (
on `expirationDate` field with `expireAfterSeconds: 0`) on collection
or not. Could be useful in situations when you don't want to create index
from the app e.g. due to restricted db permissions (see
[#15](https://github.com/2do2go/rate-limit-mongo/issues/15) for details).
Defaults to `true`.


## Methods

`MongoStore` class provides public methods (`incr`, `decrement`, `resetKey`)
required by [express-rate-limit](https://github.com/nfriedly/express-rate-limit).

In addition following methods provided:

* `getClient(callback)` - if `collection` was not passed to the constructor then
that method will pass (as second argument) initiated instace of
[MongoClient](http://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/3.3/api/MongoClient.html)
to the `callback`, otherwise `null` will be passed. Thus this method provides
control over connection initiated by the library to the end user. This method
is promisified (when `util.promisify` is presented (node.js >= 8)).