
Published: January 2026 Reading time: 35 minutes Keywords: #design-patterns #decorator #middleware #composition #typescript #expressjs #nestjs
Your lead walks in. "We need rate limiting on all authenticated endpoints." You look at your codebase: 47 controllers, each with duplicated auth, logging, and validation logic.
The naive approach: Add rate limiting to all 47 controllers manually.
The reality: Express.js, NestJS, and AWS Lambda handle this with zero duplication. They use the Decorator Pattern to compose behaviors dynamically.
This article shows you how to build APIs where adding a feature like rate limiting takes 1 minute, not 3 days.
async function createPost(req: Request, res: Response) {
// Auth check (copy #1 of 47)
const token = req.headers.authorization;
if (!token) return res.status(401).send();
// Logging (copy #2 of 47)
logger.info('Creating post');
// Business logic (only 5 lines!)
const post = await db.posts.create(req.body);
res.json(post);
}
Problems:
We wrap the core handler in "Decorators" (Middleware) that add functionality without changing the handler.
const createPost = compose(
errorHandler,
logging,
authenticate,
rateLimit(10, 60000), // 10 req/min
validateBody(postSchema)
)(createPostHandler);
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