4 years ago

Category: Laravel, Laravel, api, api

Sometimes you need to control how many times a logic is called, specially when contacting external APIs, to avoid hard errors on requests and stopping the whole application.

There is a Rate Limiter, and you can use it to throttle a callback, or anything really. But why stopping there if we can further create a helper to save us more lines?

It will accept the key needed for the Rate Limiter and the callback itself we want to execute.

For example, we need to send a message to another user, but avoid spamming users with multiple messages across the application.