thip

Ultra-Thin, Dependency-Free, Promise-Based HTTP request client.

Features

• Ultra thin, and lightweight
• Dependency free
• Promise based
• Only supports Node.js (>= 6), not supports browser
• Supports HTTPS
• Follows redirect by default

Install

npm install thip

Usage

thip(options[, data])

• options <object>|<string> - Any options not included below will be passed to http.request(options).
  • url <string> - If you specified this option, parse the url and merged to other options.
  • followRedirect <boolean> - Follow HTTP 3xx responses as redirects. Defaults to true.
  • maxRedirects <number> - The maximum number of redirects to follow. Defaults to 10.
• data <string>|<buffer> - This will be passed to request.write(chunk).

This function returns Promise object which resolves response object. The response object is an instance of http.IncomingMessage, but contains body property.

const thip = require('thip');

thip('http://example.com/').then((res) => {
  console.log(res.body);
});

const thip = require('thip');
const querystring = require('querystring');

const data = querystring.stringify({
  'msg': 'Hello World!',
});

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'http://example.com/message',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(data),
  },
};

thip(options, data).then((res) => {
  console.log('Post successful!');
});

thip.get(options[, data])

• options.method assigns "GET" by default.
• If data is <object>, the data is encoded as URL query.

thip.get('http://example.com/', { foo: 'bar' });

This is same as below.

thip('http://example.com/?foo=bar');

thip.post(options[, data])

• options.method assigns "POST" by default.
• If data is <object>, the data is encoded as x-www-form-urlencoded.

const thip = require('thip');

thip.post('http://example.com/', { foo: 'bar' });

This is same as below.

const thip = require('thip');
const querystring = require('querystring');

const data = querystring.stringify({
  'foo': 'bar',
});

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'http://example.com/',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(data),
  },
};

thip(options, data);

Error Handling

If HTTP response status code is 4xx or 5xx, the promise is rejected with HttpClientError or HttpServerError.

thip('http://example.com/not_found_path').catch((error, res) => {
  console.log(error.name); // "HttpClientError"
  console.log(res.statusCode); // 404
})