Sunday, February 10, 2013

Node E-Mail Contact Form Submission Rate Limiting With Sessions

Using mongoose and coffee-script, I will layout a simple approach to limiting POST queries by client session id.

There are specific requirements for this POST route:

  • E-mail uses Gmail service account (provided by Node-Mailer)
  • Provide user feedback in real time (res.send)
  • Rate limit user's ability to POST over a defined interval (timestamps)


Lets create our model.  This collection will store our users submissions by session id.


Now lets define our app.post function.