What happens if 50 customers add a product to the cart at the same time?

Technical Q&A
1

According to the REST API docs , request are 2 requests/second in the standard plan,
My question is

What would happen if 50 customer added a product to the cart simultaneously ?

Would it by queued or return error or 404 or something

Here’s my code

function addProductToCart(){
		fetch('/cart/add', {
		  method: 'POST',
		  headers: {
			'Content-Type': 'application/json'
		  },
		  body: JSON.stringify(addData)
		})
		.then(response => {
		  console.log(' product added')
		}) 
		.catch((error) => {
		  console.error('Error:', error);
		});
	}

Thanks in advance

2

I assume you will put this script on the storefront, like the millions of stores some with pretty heavy transactions do.

You’ll be fine as long as those customers don’t share the same IP, see https://shopify.dev/api/storefront

Storefront API uses a leaky bucket algorithm to enforce its rate limit. Unlike most Shopify APIs, however, this limit is enforced on the IP address of the buyer, not the ID of the merchant’s shop.

3

Have you solved this problem now?