Implement api rate limiting with jester

For anyone trying to implement rate limiting with jester, I just created a jester plugin library [clown_limiter](https://github.com/C-NERD/clown_limiter) which can be used to implement rate limiting. I have published the library to nimble just waiting for the pull request to be merged and the li

Implement api rate limiting with jester

Yeah, we need manual docs for this stuff.

Implement api rate limiting with jester

Because "before" is not a proc or template or macro, it is a special name reserved for the untyped routes macros=>

Implement api rate limiting with jester

Also it'll be nice if we could get a full documentation of the jester routes macros without having to read the code

Implement api rate limiting with jester

Ok, thanks. For some reason Nim doc failed to generate proper docs on the routes macro in general it doesn't usually generate proper docs for macros so I couldn't find this in the jester docs.

Implement api rate limiting with jester

You don't need middleware for this. You can create a route that runs before all requests (or all requests under a specific sub-path), for example: . So the following should work for you: before re"/*?": if ra

Implement api rate limiting with jester

Thanks I think I will switch my project's server to prologue

Implement api rate limiting with jester

iirc what you're after is what many web frameworks call "middleware", which is not something that Jester has. However, there's [a fork](https://github.com/JohnAD/jesterwithplugins) from a couple of years ago which adds it. It was [covered in NimConf 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYv1QfJ

Implement api rate limiting with jester

Hello i am attempting to implement rate limiting on my jester server application and to do that i created a variable of type `OrderedTable` which would keep track of the ip address of all computers requesting from the server and would stop serving to theses computers if they exceed a certain lim