Minimal XHR request library

Installation

npm install rqst

Example

const { get } = require('rqst')

get('https://api.github.com/users/tj')
  .then((data) => console.log(data.avatar_url))
  .catch(console.error.bind(console))
// -> https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25254?v=3

Guide

About the API

Doing basic success requests the promise interface can be used. As soon as you want seperate callback handlers for cancellation, a promise falls short. This is where you can use the traditional callback-based API:

get(API_URL, {
  onSucess: () => console.log('successful request'),
  onError: () => console.error('something wen\'t wrong'),
  onAbort: () => console.info('the request has been aborted')
})

POST

const data = {
  userId: 1,
  title: 'foo',
  body: 'bar'
}

post('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts', data)
  .then((user) => console.log(user))
  .catch((err) => console.error(err))

Cancellation

Calling any of the http requests (i.E. .get, .put) returns a function to abort a request. This is useful for example if you have a GET request inflight and the user switches pages on a SPA. You want to cancel that request since its no longer neccessary.

const abort = get('http://url.com/data.json', {
  onAbort: () => console.log('request has been cancelled.')
})

// aborts the request
abort()

Minimize bundle size

rqst is already small as is but if you, for your specific project, only need let's say GET requests you can just require that:

const post = require('rqst/post')
const get = require('rqst/get')

File Upload

Todo

Progress

Todo

Tests

npm test

License

MIT