Piping Expressjs to another API via requestjs

pipe.js

'use strict';

const request = require('request');

module.exports = function forward(req, res, next) {
    var myRequest = request({
      url: req.url,
      headers: req.headers
    });
    req.pipe(myRequest)
      .on('response', function (response) {
        if (response.statusCode >= 400) {
          var body = '';
          // chunks as strings, not buffers
          response.setEncoding('utf8');
          response.on('data', function(chunk) {
            body += chunk;
          });
          response.on('end', function () {
            if(body) {
              next(new Error('error forwarding ' + JSON.stringify(body)));
            } else {
              next(new Error('error forwarding'));
            }
          });
        } else {
          // does this work? I think so
          myRequest.pipe(res);
        }
      })
      .on('error', function (err) {
        next(err);
      });
  }

  return forward;
}

module.exports = forwardFactory;