It's a rite of passage to create a crappy, half baked web framework. It's a great thing that every web developer should do so that they understand, end to end, the tensions facing the creators of web frameworks, the tradeoffs between the various attempts to balance purity with convenience, and how much 'magic' you want a framework to perform vs how much should be completely explicit.

However, nobody should ever use these frameworks, there are probably 5000 of them floating around out there in github, and beyond an exercise in pedagogy they are mostly half broken and stupid.

So to the author of Quinn: don't let this get you down, stay excited, but realize that it's possible that you can't just swoop in and do something great on your first try. OTOH, node.js' ecosystem is so amateurish and shitty that maybe you actually could.