// freeCodeCamp · 9 January 2026

How to Build an In-Memory Rate Limiter in Next.js

An API rate limiter is a server-side component of a web service that limits the number of API requests a client can make to an endpoint within a period of time. For example, X (formerly known as Twitter) limits the number of tweets that a specific us...

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