Rewriting req.url in router with prefix path results in missing slash (/)

Hello, I've been trying to use a npm module (connect-history-api-fallback) and encounter problems that after a lot of debugging I believe boils down to this issue.

When you're in a router that has a mount path, doing a rewrite on the relative root ('') path result in a missing slash, eg with bug.js as below

const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3000

var router = express.Router();
router.get('/', function (req, res, next) {
    req.url = "/index.html"
    next()
});

app.use('/app', router);

app.use(function (req, res, next) {
    console.log("Rewritten path: " + req.url)
    res.end()
});

app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}!`))

Running the following commands:

node bug.js
curl localhost:3000/app

results in the rewritten path to be /appindex.html instead of /app/index.html

Environment:

"node": 12.10.0
"express": 4.17.1

This sounds like a bug to me, but maybe I'm doing something wrong? I'm not too expert in expressjs to know for sure (my hunch is the router code doesn't 'remount' the prefix path properly.

Thanks!