[TheHappyOddish]

Man there is a lot of negativity here, some people really need to reread the guidelines.

Good on you. As a sysadmin of decades I could absolutely to this in a few lines of nginx or other web servers as others have mentioned, however this looks like a cool and fun project.

Just because doing it one way wins on some specific metrics (like performance) doesn't mean it does for other people (like node developers who want to change some server functionality).

I can't believe people can write with a straight face that a web dev should learn nginx, set up openresty and write a lua script to do this. Get out of your own bubbles people.