The middleware chain
Two people, one Express app, and eight middleware functions between the request and the response.
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2013
Express middleware chains
Route handlers don't need to be nested callbacks -- Express middleware chains turn them into a flat, readable sequence.
2012
A fifty-line rate limiter
In-memory rate limiting as Express middleware. No Redis, no external service. Fifty lines, one file.
URL mapping in Redis
Loading every product, category, and brand URL into a Redis hash at startup, and a middleware that rewrites requests before Express sees them.