Building a reverse proxy w/ Express

Question

I'm working on a project where I'm currently trying to set up a reverse proxy via express which will serve up several static components compiled by webpack. A quick scheme of what I'm trying to do.

Client -> Reverse Proxy Server -> Component Server (10 total individual servers)

Any request from the client will have to go through the reverse proxy server and then that request should get forwarded to the correct component server. How can I go about achieving this? I don't see any documentation in expressjs that mentions how to do this. Theres a package here https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-proxy-middleware that will let me do exactly what I want but I've been forbidden from using it. Any direction/help towards documentation would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Thought I'd follow up on this - the listed http-proxy-middleware seems to have a lot of bloating. I got it to work to forward my requests but measuring the performance vs. an API call via axios was much faster and more performant in terms of handling a higher number of requests from users.