nodejitsu/node-http-proxy is dead. Would you consider switching?

[RichAyotte]

With the last code commit made Dec 6, 2016, and 49 PR in the queue, I'm ready to declare nodejitsu/node-http-proxy dead.

Would you consider using nxtedition/node-http2-proxy instead?

[chimurai]

Hi @RichAyotte,

Thanks for spotting node-http2-proxy.

Think any healthy competition is always welcome.

Is there a good comparison for the two libraries?

[RichAyotte]

The project is new and I believe it arose out of the need for http2 support. Perhaps @ronag can tell us more?

[ronag]

@RichAyotte it was built with http2 support, simplicity, and performance in mind.

The API is much smaller and simpler than node-http-proxy. So if there might be some feature that http-proxy-middleware depends on that would have to be implemented inside http-proxy-middleware instead.

Performance wise it has almost zero overhead with as far as I can tell no extra allocations (no closures etc...) that V8 is not able to optimize away.

Also, I believe it much closer follows the HTTP spec for proxy behavior.

Though, you should note that node-http-proxy is much more tested and has lots of unit tests to avoid regressions (which node-http2-proxy doesn't have yet). On the other hand node-http2-proxy is much simpler.

[chimurai]

fixed by #1160