miniagent.js

Previously request.js. Renamed because it clashed with the famous npm module. So now it's available on npm too.

Simple http request on the client side. Inspired by superagent.

Why another ajax library?

I tell you why. There's no unopinionated library out there. Either you have to pull in a whole all-in-one library just so you can call x endpoint, or you have to build on from source because they don't provide distributed versions. Superagent requires you to use component which in itself is opinionated. Request doesn't have a client side version. Well, it has a port..but it's not that elegant! So there you have it.

Install

npm install request

or

bower install request

Usage

With browserify

var request = require("miniagent")

With simple js

<script type="text/javascript" src="<path-to-miniagent>/dist/request.js"></script>

or

<script type="text/javascript" src="<path-to-miniagent>/dist/request.min.js"></script>

then

var request = window.miniagent

Minified and dev build are available in the dest/ dir.

API

// GET
request
  .get("http://updates.html5rocks.com")
  .query("property", "value")
  .query({
    property: "value"
    //"...": "..."
  })
  .cors()
  .timeout(2000) // ms
  .end(function( err, resp ){
    console.log(resp.body.match('<title>(.*)?</title>')[1], resp)
  })

// POST
request
  .post("/api/endpoint")
  .contentType("text/html")
  .accept("text/html")
  .header("content-type", "text/html")
  .header({
    "Accept": "text/html"
    //"...": "..."
  })
  .send({
    property: "value"
    //"...": "..."
  })
  .form(HTMLFormElement|FormData)
  .attach("field", File, "fileName")
  .withCredentials() // Enable transmission of cookies with x-domain requests.
  .auth("user", "pass") // -> this.header("Authorization", "Basic" + btoa(user + ":" + pass))
  .end(function( err, resp ){
    console.log(resp.body)
  })

// METHODS
methods = [
  'get', 'post', 'put', 'head', 'delete', 'options', 'trace', 'copy', 'lock', 'mkcol',
  'move', 'propfind', 'proppatch', 'unlock', 'report', 'mkactivity', 'checkout',
  'merge', 'm-search', 'notify', 'subscribe', 'unsubscribe', 'patch'
]

// MIME SHORTHANDS
mime["html"] = mime["text"] = "text/html"
mime["json"] = "application/json"
mime["xml"] = "application/xml"
mime["urlencoded"] = mime["form"] = mime["url"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
mime["form-data"] = mime["multipart"] = "multipart/form-data"

For more details, check out the source.

Licence

MIT Go run with it!