A Library API With Rate Limiting

About

A simple library API illustrating how to implement rate limiting using the Laravel Trottle Middleware and Kinsta technologies:

Application Requirements

To successfully run this app on your local machine, the following are needed:

• PHP 8.2, Composer and Laravel are installed and configured on your local machine.
• An active free Kinsta account.

Application Endpoint Documentations

You can import the docs.json file to your postman collection to learn more on the payload and parameters needed by the applictions endpoints. You can also list the application routes using the commands below:

$ php artisan route:list

Running the application

• Open a new terminal window and execute the command below in the root directory of the application:

$ composer install

• Duplicate, rename and copy over the content .env.example file to .env and configure correectly the following database credentials

DB_HOST=
DB_PORT=
DB_DATABASE=
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=

Run migrations

• In the in the root directory of the application run the following commands:

$ php artisan migrate

Start the application

• In the in the root directory of the application run the following commands:

$ php artisan serve

Test the application

Then, go to http://localhost:8000 and test it out.

List the application routes

• In the in the root directory of the application run the following commands to list the applicatio routes inorder to help you test quickly:

$ php artisan route:list