Node server fetch#6
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Add a modern HTTP server API that uses the Fetch API's Request and
Response objects, bypassing the legacy IncomingMessage/ServerResponse
stream-based model.
Features:
- serve(options, handler) creates HTTP or HTTPS servers
- Handler receives Request, returns Response (sync or async)
- getRemoteMetadata(request) retrieves connection info
- Automatic chunked transfer encoding when no Content-Length
- Keep-alive connection support
- Graceful shutdown via AbortSignal
- Custom error handling via onError callback
The implementation reuses the battle-tested HTTPParser but creates
Fetch API objects directly from parser output. Requests are serialized
per connection (no HTTP pipelining) - parser is paused after headers
and resumed after response is written.
Example usage:
const { serve, getRemoteMetadata } = require('http');
const server = serve({}, async (request) => {
const body = await request.json();
return Response.json({ received: body });
});
server.listen(3000);
- Enable TCP_NODELAY (noDelay: true) to prevent Nagle's algorithm from batching small writes, which was causing 40ms delays - Batch header writes into a single socket.write() call - Use cork()/uncork() to batch chunked body writes These optimizations improve hello-world throughput from ~24 req/sec to ~13,600 req/sec (567x improvement). The remaining 2.3x gap vs createServer() is due to Response body streaming overhead.
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