@overseers/simply-fetch

A node-fetch wrapper to simplify the interface, the output, and bring back some of the comforts of request. npm i @overseers/simply-fetch

Usage

const { fetch } = require('@overseers/simply-fetch');
fetch({ url: 'https://sv443.net/jokeapi/v2/joke/Any' }).then((response) => {
    console.log('RESPONSE: ', response);
}).catch((err) => {
    console.log('ERROR: ', err);
});

Input

Request Object:

• url: (required) route to the requested resource
• method: (optional) method to utilize for request
  • Default: 'GET'
• headers: (optional) headers to be utilized in the request
• qs: (optional) an object representing the query string
  • example of use:

    fetch({ url: 'https://someurl/here?key=value&key1=value1' });
    // VS
    fetch({ url: 'https://someurl/here', qs: { key: value, key1: value1 });

  • example of use with an array of a key:

    fetch({ url: 'https://someurl/here?key=value&key=value1&key1=value2' });
    // VS
    fetch({ url: 'https://someurl/here', qs: { key: [value, value1], key1: value2 });

• body: (optional) a payload to be sent as the body of a request
• formData: (optional) can be used for file-uploads and other multi-part requests
  • form-data is utilized to accommodate for this functionality
• agent: (optional) an object to be passed to Node to be utilized during the request, details can be found here
  • example:

    const https = require('https');
    const agent = new https.Agent({ rejectUnauthorized: false });
    fetch({ url: 'https://someurl/here', agent });

Output

Response Object:

• status: the status number sent back from the request
• headers: the headers from the response
• body: the response being sent back