Here’s the translation of the Go rate limiting example to TypeScript, formatted in Markdown suitable for Hugo:
Rate limiting is an important mechanism for controlling resource utilization and maintaining quality of service. TypeScript can support rate limiting with asynchronous functions, Promises, and timeouts.
Running our program we see the first batch of requests handled once every ~200 milliseconds as desired.
For the second batch of requests we serve the first 3 immediately because of the burstable rate limiting, then serve the remaining 2 with ~200ms delays each.
This TypeScript implementation uses async/await and Promise-based timeouts to achieve similar functionality to the original example. The bursty rate limiting is implemented using a token bucket algorithm, which is a common approach in TypeScript/JavaScript for this kind of rate limiting.