Node-Rxjs-Ajax

If you enjoy working with RXJS and you've ever wanted to use it in an api you may notice there's some issues in node when you import ajax from RXJS - this package builds an alternative that still uses observables for its HTTP Client.

So this is a smallish implementation of Rxjs Ajax that works in node.

Installation

$ npm install node-rxjs-ajax

Usage

We can use our options object to build our http parts, simply import NodeAjax from the package like below, below is an example of a simple get request

import { NodeAjax } from 'node-rxjs-ajax';

NodeAjax.get<T>('https://our-request-api/resource').pipe(/* any operators you need ).subscribe();

Requests also have an options object we can pass in like so:

{
    headers?: Record<string, string>;
    contentType?: "json" | "text" | "form";
    timeout?: number;
    params?: Record<string, string | number | boolean>;
}

And for .patch, .put and .post our generics need to follow our body we place in like so:

interface ProfileData {
    username: string;
    avatar: string;
    bio: string;
    age: number;
}

// this will return Observable<ProfileData> //
NodeAjax.post<ProfileData>('https://our-request-api/resource', {
    username: 'JohnDoe',
    avatar: '',
    bio: 'John Doe, international man of mystery',
    age: 30
}).subscribe();