implements a way to skip over certain ips in rate limiter

src/express/middleware/index.js

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ const middleware = (payload) => [
   rateLimit({
     windowMs: payload.config.rateLimit.window,
     max: payload.config.rateLimit.max,
+    skip(req) {
+      return payload.config.rateLimit.whitelist.includes(req.ip);
+    },
   }),
   passport.initialize(),
   identifyAPI('REST'),

src/utilities/sanitizeConfig.js

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ const sanitizeConfig = (config) => {
   sanitizedConfig.rateLimit = config.rateLimit || {};
   sanitizedConfig.rateLimit.window = sanitizedConfig.rateLimit.window || 15 * 60 * 100; // 15min default
   sanitizedConfig.rateLimit.max = sanitizedConfig.rateLimit.max || 100;
+  sanitizedConfig.rateLimit.whitelist = sanitizedConfig.rateLimit.max || [];
 
   sanitizedConfig.components = { ...(config.components || {}) };
   sanitizedConfig.hooks = { ...(config.hooks || {}) };