https://github.com/mikeal/r2

HTTP client. Spiritual successor to request.
https://github.com/mikeal/r2

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HTTP client. Spiritual successor to request.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mikeal/r2
• Owner: mikeal
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2017-08-30T23:50:18.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-09-01T16:23:58.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-22T09:42:58.875Z (6 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 71.3 KB
• Stars: 4,451
• Watchers: 60
• Forks: 118
• Open Issues: 30
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# r2

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Early in Node.js I wrote an HTTP client library called `request`. It evolved

along with Node.js and eventually became very widely depended upon.

A lot has changed since 2010 and I've decided to re-think what a simple

HTTP client library should look like.

This new library, `r2`, is a completely new approach from `request`.

* Rather than being built on top of the Node.js Core HTTP library and

  shimmed for the browser, `r2` is built on top of the browser's

  Fetch API and shimmed for Node.js.

* APIs are meant to be used with async/await, which means they are

  based on promises.

```javascript

const r2 = require('r2')

let html = await r2('https://www.google.com').text

```

Simple JSON support.

```javascript

let obj = {ok: true}

let resp = await r2.put('http://localhost/test.json', {json: obj}).json

```

Simple headers support.

```javascript

let headers = {'x-test': 'ok'}

let res = await r2('http://localhost/test', {headers}).response

```

Being written to the Fetch API is a huge benefit for browser users.

When running through browserify `request` is ~2M uncompressed and ~500K compressed. `r2` is only 66K uncompressed and 16K compressed.