My advice would be to use the current stable version since 2.0.0 is just around the corner :) ! We are quite happy with the performance and system load using jester[1] with httpbeast for routing, but there are a couple of alternatives in the package repository[2].
[0] https://nim-lang.org/install_unix.html [1] https://github.com/dom96/jester/ [2] https://nimble.directory/