ziti-electron-fetch

A module that intercepts all window.fetch calls in the web-app loaded within an Electron Renderer process, and routes those HTTP/REST calls over a Ziti network.

• Motivation
• Features
• Difference from client-side fetch
• Installation
• Loading and configuring the module
• License
• Acknowledgement

Motivation

Instead of implementing XMLHttpRequest in Node.js to run browser-specific Fetch polyfill, why not go from native http to fetch API directly? Hence, ziti-electron-fetch, minimal code for a window.fetch compatible API on Node.js runtime.

Features

• Stay consistent with window.fetch API.
• Make conscious trade-off when following WHATWG fetch spec and stream spec implementation details, document known differences.
• Use native promise but allow substituting it with [insert your favorite promise library].
• Use native Node streams for body on both request and response.
• Useful extensions such as timeout, redirect limit, response size limit, explicit errors for troubleshooting.

Difference from client-side fetch

• See Known Differences for details.
• If you happen to use a missing feature that window.fetch offers, feel free to open an issue.
• Pull requests are welcomed too!

Installation

$ npm install ziti-electron-fetch

Loading and configuring the module

We suggest you load the module via require until the stabilization of ES modules in node:

const fetch = require('ziti-electron-fetch');

Acknowledgement

Thanks to node-fetch for providing a solid implementation reference.

License

Apache 2.0