The Only Laravel Rate Limiting Guide You’ll Ever Need 🔥

In this video, learn how to implement Rate Limiting in Laravel 13 from scratch to protect your APIs and web routes against spam, bot traffic, and brute-force attacks (such as OTP & email flooding). We dive deep into how rate limiting works under the hood, how to configure global and route-specific limits using the RateLimiter facade, how to return custom JSON responses instead of default 429 HTML pages, and how to rate-limit specific segments of your controller logic using RateLimiter::attempt(). ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Why Rate Limiting is Critical (OTP & API Spam) 02:15 - How Rate Limiting Works Under the Hood 05:25 - Project Setup in Laravel 13 08:24 - Defining Route Rate Limiters in AppServiceProvider 11:00 - Grouping Routes with Throttle Middleware 13:20 - Testing 429 Too Many Requests 17:00 - Returning Custom JSON Error Responses 21:00 - Rate Limiting Specific Controller Logic (RateLimiter::attempt) 24:30 - Testing Controller Execution Logs & Wrap-up 🔔 Subscribe to Coding Pathshala for more practical, industry-standard Laravel & backend engineering tutorials! #Laravel #Laravel13 #PHP #WebDevelopment #Backend #CodingPathshala