Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

Rate limiting

Rate limiting is also known as throttling. It means that there should be a limit on how much time a particular client is able to hit the API endpoint in a specific time interval. To enable it, we must enable the api.throttling middleware. You can apply throttling on all routes or on specific routes. You will just apply middleware on that particular route as shown here. In our case, we want to enable it for all endpoints, so let's put it in a version group:

$api->version('v1', ['middleware' => 'api.throttle','prefix' => 'api/v1'], function ($api) { $api->resource('posts', "App\Http\Controllers\V1\PostController"); $api->resource('comments', "App\Http\Controllers\V1\CommentController", [ 'except' => ['store', 'index'] ]);$api ...