An ultra-lightweight, pure javascript library which fetches HTTP requests with a standard API.

NOTE: Reqiuires node -v >= 18. Or can be used with --experimental-fetch flag for node -v = 16.

Installation

yarn add fetch-lean

Usage

const fetchLean = require('fetch-lean');

const test = async () => {
let getResp = await fetchLean('GET', 'http://localhost:8000/get-route', {parameter1: 'parameter 1 value', parameter2: 'parameter 2 value', }, true);
let postResp = await fetchLean('POST', 'http://localhost:8000/post-route', {parameter1: 'parameter 1 value', parameter2: 'parameter 2 value', }, false);
console.log(`GET response: ${JSON.stringify(getResp.data)}`);
console.log(`POST response: ${JSON.stringify(postResp.data)}`);
}
test();

API

| Name | Description | |-------|-------------| |p_method| HTTP method to use, possible values are 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'CONNECT', 'OPTIONS', 'TRACE', 'PATCH'.| |p_uri| API route, full URI to call| |p_extra_headers| A JSON object to identify headers. The default is { Accept: 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', } and any provided JSON object will be merged onto this one.| |p_body| A JSON object to send the parameters. Only gor GET requests, these parameters are converted to URL query parameters, for others they are sent within the 'body' key.| |p_retrieveStatus| The status code is not returned in successfull calls. Set this parameter to true to get a status field in the response code. The field overrides if there exists another status field in the json, so be careful. Default is false.|

License

The license is MIT and full text here.

Used Modules

None