> Unlike nginx or Caddy, the Apache design and community encouraged writing modules (roughly akin to "middleware" in the modern server-side web stack) that hook

> Unlike nginx or Caddy, the Apache design and community encouraged writing modules (roughly akin to "middleware" in the modern server-side web stack) that hooked directly into the web server, rather than just using it as a static host + L7 proxy. Huh? I must be misunderstanding, because everything in Caddy is a module, even its HTTP server, and all its middleware handlers are equally modules that you can plug in as much as any other module you could write and publish. Some Caddy modules also expose dynamic scripting / language interpretation capabilities as well. Caddy is used for well more than just static files and HTTP reverse proxying.