This library parses HTTP protocol for requests and responses. It was created to replace http_parser.c since calling C++ function from JS is really slow in V8.

This is packaged as a standalone npm module. To use in node, monkeypatch HTTPParser.

// Monkey patch before you require http for the first time.
process.binding("http_parser").HTTPParser = require('http-parser-js').HTTPParser;

var http = require('http');
// ...

This is still in early development. It can respond to basic HTTP GET requests like the standard HTTP hello-world. In initial testing it's 8% faster for non-keepalive requests.

The plan is to port the unit tests from the http-parser. Once we have all tests passing the node http tests can be run using the monkey-patch method above. Once all those pass, we're good to go. Hopefully this will still be faster by then.