Limit the execution rate of any function.

with npm

npm install function-rate-limit

returns a rate limited function which should be called instead of the function passed to rateLimit

• limitCount - the number of times per limitInterval to limit execution of function
• limitInterval - the duration of time during which to limit execution of function specified in ms
• function - the function which should be rate limited

function will be called up to limitCount times during limitInterval including bursting.

var rateLimit = require('function-rate-limit');
// limit to 2 executions per 1000ms
var start = Date.now()
var fn = rateLimit(2, 1000, function (x) {
  console.log('%s ms - %s', Date.now() - start, x);
});
for (var y = 0; y < 10; y++) {
  fn(y);
}

results in:

10 ms - 0
11 ms - 1
1004 ms - 2
1012 ms - 3
2008 ms - 4
2013 ms - 5
3010 ms - 6
3014 ms - 7
4017 ms - 8
4017 ms - 9

Prior to version 1.x.x, this module behaved as a throttle module. function would be invoked only one time per limitCount/limitInterval with no bursting. If you need this functionality again and do not want bursting, see the lodash.throttle module.

Copyright (c) 2012 Daniel L. VerWeire

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