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What changed since the first version

The first version added a count: 'failed' option that read the counter before a request and incremented it only after a failure. The review showed that it does not bound a parallel burst: with max: 2, ten concurrent failing requests all reached the handler. The fix the review proposed, reserving a slot before forwarding and releasing it on success, is exactly what skipSuccessfulRequest already does. With the same max: 2, that option lets 2 of the 10 through. So the option is dropped, and this PR now only fixes what the review found in skipSuccessfulRequest / skipFailedRequest.

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  • Header after a decrement: when a skip flag takes a request back off the counter, RateLimit-Remaining and the request's rate-limit info now report the count after the decrement. Before, a skipped request advertised one remaining slot fewer than it really had. The header is updated on the returned response and on event.response, so routup's fallback response is covered too. A response with immutable headers (Response.redirect, a forwarded fetch()) is copied.
  • Thrown errors, documented: a downstream throw is judged by the response of the error handler that answers it. When no error handler is registered, next() returns no response and the handler event exposes no error. The middleware therefore cannot see the status and counts the request as failed. The README now says so.

Tests

  • The existing skip tests assert the corrected header (5 instead of 4).
  • With an error handler, a thrown 500 the predicate accepts is not counted, and a thrown 401 it rejects is counted.
  • Without an error handler, a thrown error is counted.
  • The header is refreshed on a Response.redirect (immutable headers).
  • max: 2 with ten concurrent failing requests lets exactly 2 reach the handler.

10 tests pass; lint and the type build are clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Requests excluded from rate limiting no longer reduce the remaining request allowance.
    • Remaining-limit headers are now preserved on redirect responses and responses with immutable headers.
    • Failed requests are counted according to the error-handler response when one is registered; without an error handler, thrown requests count as unsuccessful.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified how thrown requests affect success checks when an error handler is or isn’t registered.

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The rate-limit handler now updates request counts and remaining-limit headers when it skips a request. Tests cover error-handler responses, redirects, and concurrent requests. The README describes how thrown requests are evaluated.

Changes

Rate-limit request outcomes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Request outcome counting and headers
packages/rate-limit/src/handler.ts, packages/rate-limit/test/unit/module.spec.ts, packages/rate-limit/README.md
The handler updates request rate-limit information and the remaining-limit header when it skips a request. If response headers cannot be changed directly, it returns a response with copied headers and the original body and status details. Tests cover thrown requests with and without an error handler, predicate-rejected responses, skipped requests, redirects, and concurrent requests. The README documents how thrown requests are evaluated.

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Change: Bug fix

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During concurrent skipped requests, users may see a remaining-quota value that is too high. This is a bounded metadata issue, so the change presents low merge risk with owner awareness or follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 56652

The change preserves quota enforcement before requests reach downstream handlers and improves skipped-request reporting. No new admission bypass was established. Framework fallback behavior and compatibility of copied responses remain only partially verified.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed behavior is reachable on requests selected for outcome-based skipping within applications using this middleware. It changes quota metadata and responses, without changing the inspected key identity, store-write target, or admission authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Outcome classification remains response-based: a returned response is evaluated by the configured predicate, while no response is classified as unsuccessful. Tests cover accepted and rejected error-handler responses and an unanswered throw. This documents existing behavior rather than introducing a new trust decision.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Store expiration and post-outcome cleanup are unchanged. The Store contract provides no generation token or explicit atomicity, idempotency, or recovery guarantee. These existing limitations constrain conclusions about delayed completion, interruptions, and custom stores; they are not established PR regressions.
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Failure responses advertise stale quotas, and fallback errors bypass the custom success predicate.

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What changed in this PR

Adds failed-only counting to @routup/rate-limit, avoiding quota consumption by successful requests still in flight.

Changes:

  • Introduces count modes and optional store reads.
  • Shares quota handling between modes.
  • Adds documentation and failure/concurrency tests.
File Description
packages/​rate-limit/​test/​unit/​module.spec.ts Tests failed-only counting and error handling.
packages/​rate-limit/​src/​utils/​options.ts Defaults counting to all.
packages/​rate-limit/​src/​type.ts Defines the count option and mode type.
packages/​rate-limit/​src/​store/​type.ts Adds optional counter reads.
packages/​rate-limit/​src/​store/​memory.ts Implements read-only counter access.
packages/​rate-limit/​src/​handler.ts Implements failed-only counting and shared quota helpers.
packages/​rate-limit/​README.md Documents count modes and store requirements.

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Comment on lines +82 to +85
const response = await event.next();
const wasSuccessful = response ?
options.requestWasSuccessful(event, response) :
false;

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Confirmed. It cannot be fixed inside the middleware, though: the handler event routup 6 passes to a handler does not expose error, so when no error handler answers, next() gives this middleware nothing to classify. This was already true before this PR. It is now documented in the README and pinned by tests both ways: with an error handler, the predicate judges the error's response; without one, the request counts as failed. Exposing the error to upstream handlers is a change for routup itself.


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- Around line 73-78: Update the request flow around `store.get`, `applyQuota`,
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* Defaults to `all`.
*/
count: RateLimitCountMode

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Use String literal of RatelimitCountMode so you can use the enum Reference or String Value

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No longer applies: RateLimitCountMode and the count option are gone, since the concurrency finding made them redundant with skipSuccessfulRequest.


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@tada5hi tada5hi changed the title feat(rate-limit): count only failed requests fix(rate-limit): refresh the remaining header after a skipped request Oct 5, 2026

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Comment on lines +107 to +109
const remaining = Math.max(maxHits - totalHits + 1, 0);
setRequestRateLimitInfo(event, 'current', totalHits - 1);
setRequestRateLimitInfo(event, 'remaining', remaining);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
# Inspect the store contract and implementations; do not run repository code.
fd -i 'store|type' packages/rate-limit
rg -n -C 5 --glob '*.ts' '\b(increment|decrement)\s*\(' packages/rate-limit

Repository: routup/plugins

Length of output: 3357


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#!/bin/bash
set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- PR diff for rate-limit handler/store ---'
git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=30 58a755320442546e1b14c1c5fe8a8baf7e24e985 26059ac3539055178f94b71e2bf27c8268e04dee -- packages/rate-limit/src/handler.ts packages/rate-limit/src/store
printf '%s\n' '--- store interface ---'
nl -ba packages/rate-limit/src/store/type.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- memory store ---'
nl -ba packages/rate-limit/src/store/memory.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- handler ---'
nl -ba packages/rate-limit/src/handler.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- store references within package ---'
rg -n -F -- 'RateLimitStore' packages/rate-limit || test "$?" -eq 1
rg -n -F -- 'decrement(' packages/rate-limit || test "$?" -eq 1

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Length of output: 13916


Calculate skipped-request quota from the post-decrement count.

When another request increments the same key before this request finishes, totalHits is stale. The decrement updates the shared count, but the handler uses that snapshot to set current and remaining. This can report an extra slot compared with the store.

Make Store.decrement return the post-decrement count atomically, then use it for both values.

🐛 Suggested fix
diff --git a/packages/rate-limit/src/store/type.ts b/packages/rate-limit/src/store/type.ts
-     * Method to decrement a client's hit counter.
+     * Decrements a client's hit counter and returns the resulting count atomically.
...
-    decrement: (key: string) => Promise<void> | void
+    decrement: (key: string) => Promise<number> | number

diff --git a/packages/rate-limit/src/store/memory.ts b/packages/rate-limit/src/store/memory.ts
-    async decrement(key: string): Promise<void> {
+    async decrement(key: string): Promise<number> {
         const current = this.hits[key];

         if (current) this.hits[key] = current - 1;
+        return this.hits[key] ?? 0;
     }

diff --git a/packages/rate-limit/src/handler.ts b/packages/rate-limit/src/handler.ts
-                await options.store.decrement(key);
+                const totalHitsAfterDecrement = await options.store.decrement(key);

-                const remaining = Math.max(maxHits - totalHits + 1, 0);
-                setRequestRateLimitInfo(event, 'current', totalHits - 1);
+                const remaining = Math.max(maxHits - totalHitsAfterDecrement, 0);
+                setRequestRateLimitInfo(event, 'current', totalHitsAfterDecrement);
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Review comment at @packages/rate-limit/src/handler.ts around lines 107 - 109:
Update the Store.decrement contract and its implementations to atomically return
the post-decrement hit count. In the handler’s skipped-request path, use that
returned count for both the current and remaining rate-limit values instead of
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When skipSuccessfulRequest or skipFailedRequest takes a request back off
the counter, the RateLimit-Remaining header (and the request's rate limit
info) now reports the count after the decrement instead of before it, on
the returned response as well as on a fallback response. A response with
immutable headers is copied.

Document that a throw no error handler answered reaches the middleware as
no response and is counted as failed, and pin both that and the reserving
behaviour that bounds concurrent failed requests by max.
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