rd-fetch

A developer friendly fetch wrapper class.

What this do?

When trying to migrate across from ajax, I found the way fetch handled HTTP response codes to be a bit confusing, especially for what would usually be considered errors. I found it doubly confusing trying to handle json response payloads for errors. So I made this wrapper to make things a little more convenient.

Currently this only really supports JSON, but there's no reason it couldn't support other data/content types as well.

Installation

npm i -S rd-fetch

Tests

npm run test

Usage

rd-fetch exports a class Fetch which contains static methods for making different kinds of requests. So all you need to do is

import Fetch from 'rd-fetch';

Then call the static method you need passing the required arguments to send your request.

Methods

Fetch.json

Fetch.json is a static method that will handle communicating with a resource via json. If the request status is ok, (ie., response.ok) you will be able to do what you want with the response in your then. If the request status is not ok, a rejected promise will be returned allowing you to catch the response payload in your catch. In both instances, the response will have a json property attached to it.

import Fetch from 'rd-fetch';

Fetch.json('https://example.com/api')
  .then((response) => {
	console.log(response.json);
  })
  .catch((error) => {
	console.log(error.json);
  });

Arguments

url

The URL to fetch

options

The options to use with the fetch.

options.method

The method to use, defaults to GET.

options.headers

The headers to use, defaults to

{ 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }

options.body

The body to send, defaults to null. Fetch.json will auto JSON.stringify this option so you should pass a standard JavaScript object for this option.

Advanced Usage

Since fetch calls return promises, you can handle default and custom behaviour pretty nicely by wrapping a call to a Fetch static method in a function that returns it like so

const log = { responses: [], errors: [] };
let user;

/**
 * General use request method. Pushes responses/errors into a log.
 * Always returns a promise.
 *
 * @param {string} url - the url to request
 * @param {object} [options] - the options to pass to Fetch.json
 * @return {object} Promise
 */
function request(url, options) {
  return Fetch.json(url, options)
    .then((response) => {
      log.responses.push(response);
      Promise.resolve(response);
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      log.errors.push(error);
      Promise.reject(error);
	});
}

/**
 * Logs the user in. Sets user data.
 *
 * @param {object} creds - user credentials
 * @return void
 */
function login(creds) {
  request('https://example.com/api/login', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: creds
  })
    .then((response) => {
      user = response.json;
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      console.log(error);
    });
}

License

MIT

Credits

rd-fetch was built by rohan-deshpande with

• Atom
• iTerm2
• JSON Server
• Mocha
• Chai