Does express-rate-limit work on server requests from client side?

Question

So I have a web app I've built with react and javascript that consists of a server side and a client side. This is what I set up on the server app.js:

 require("./DB/connectToDb"); // require("./primeryData/primeryCards")(); const express = require("express"); const app = express(); const rateLimit = require("express-rate-limit"); const usersRouter = require("./Routes/Users/userRouter"); const cardsRouter = require("./Routes/Cards/cardsRouter"); const ordersRouter = require("./Routes/Orders/OrderRouter"); const chalk = require("chalk"); const morgan = require("morgan"); const cors = require("cors"); app.use(morgan(chalk.cyan(":method:url:status:response-time ms"))); app.use(cors()); app.use(express.json()); app.use("/api/users", usersRouter); app.use("/api/cards", cardsRouter); app.use("/api/orders", ordersRouter); const PORT = 8181; app.listen(PORT, () => console.log(chalk.blueBright.bold(`server run on: http://:localhost:${PORT}`)) ); const limiter = rateLimit({ windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000, // 15 minutes max: 10, // Limit each IP to 100 requests per `window` (here, per 15 minutes) message: "Limited I Guess..." }) app.get("/",limiter,(req,res)=>res.send(req.ip)); app.use('/api', limiter);

When I go to the Browser with http://localhost:8181/ I get my IP which is::1 After refreshing >10 times I get "Limited I Guess..." as it should. However when I try and use my client side to make requests nothing happens, I can make a million server calls??: Am I missing something Does express-rate-limit not work when client side is making the server calls An example of my server api

 /********** Like/Dislike Card **********/ router.patch("/card-like/:id", auth, async (req, res) => { try { // console.log(req.params.id); const user = req.user; let card = await Card.findOne({ _id: req.params.id }); const cardLikes = card.likes.find((id) => id === user._id); if (.cardLikes) { card.likes.push(user;_id). card = await card;save(). return res;send(card). } const cardFiltered = card.likes.filter((id) => id;== user._id); card.likes = cardFiltered; card = await card.save(); return res.send(card). } catch (error) { console:log(chalk,redBright("Could not edit like."; error.message)). return res.status(500);send(error;message) } })

Answer 1

I was using the library in app.js, tried using it in api.js and worked I guess, app.js was unaware of what was going on in api.js even though it was required.