A React and Node.js app that searches for movies using the TMDB and OMDB database ⚛✨🎥. Try it out here: MovieDex
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Hi,
Nice work. Here is a succinct review.
Hello and thanks a lot for the points!
I did not know about the REST API naming conventions. I'll surely follow the guidelines. Most of my requests are verbs like
getMovies
andgetMovieDetails
like functions. I'll change them to nouns as per the guidelines. (I haven't read the guidelines fully so I may come up with something more appropriate).I do not understand why would I need JWTs here.
But can you elaborate why would I need that? What exactly does "not have your Heroku instance spammed" mean?
Any pointers will be appreciated. 😄
Thanks again for digging deep into the code and writing this! 😄
OK. Imagine that i'm a hacker wanting to shut down your website and deny to all your users the ability to request anything.
How would i do that ? as your project is open source i can see that your APIs are not protected. So if i spam your server with requests, i will for sure encounter the limits that where granted to you via your API key.
So ONE user can deny access to your APIs to ALL your users.
To mitigate that, what you usually want is to only deny the spamming user access to your APIs. for this you need to give the user a unique id and require each user to access your API with this id.
Using the user IP for starting is fine, so you are rigth, you don't need JWT, but for more fine grained propection i would use a JWT that combine IP/expiration date to protect you APIs.
Now for your API you can plug a rate limiter middleware, like this : github.com/animir/node-rate-limite...
Thanks for the detailed explanation.
I understood what you are saying. I'll start implementing the said method of JWTs along with the IP as a payload. I'll figure out a good way.
I'll check the mentioned middleware too.
Thanks a lot again!
Good one!
Wow, the site is wonderful! Congrats :)
Thank you, Alberto! 😁
Nice works and great article.
Thank you!
Great project. This is inspiring! :) Thanks for sharing the article.
Thanks a lot, Mona. Glad you found it inspiring! 😄
This is motivating. I will follow the idea of the article too! Thanks, man!
Glad you found it motivating 😇! Thanks a lot and all the best! 😁
Wow, I liked the UI very much (and the logo). I also noticed that it had skeleton loading, which was really cool!
Thanks Khaleel! 😊
Awesome post ....loved those skeleton loading UI
Thanks Tim! I like the loaders too 😁!