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Fly vs node-http-proxy: What are the differences?
Developers describe Fly as "A global load balancer with middleware". Deploy apps through our global load balancer with minimal shenanigans. All Fly-enabled applications get free SSL certificates, accept traffic through our global network of datacenters, and encrypt all traffic from visitors through to application servers. On the other hand, node-http-proxy is detailed as "A full-featured http proxy for node.js". node-http-proxy is an HTTP programmable proxying library that supports websockets. It is suitable for implementing components such as proxies and load balancers.
Fly and node-http-proxy can be categorized as "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" tools.
node-http-proxy is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 1.54K GitHub forks. Here's a link to node-http-proxy's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Fly
- Service Worker2
- Automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt2
- Load balancer2
- Edge2
- API Gateway2
- Extremely versatile2
- JavaScript2
Pros of node-http-proxy
- Opensource1
- Programmable1