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@hckrnews/auto-fetch
Advanced tools
With this package you can get local or remote file data like the fetch method.
import fetch '@hckrnews/auto-fetch'
const responseLocal = await fetch('./src/__fixtures__/example.json')
const responseRemote = await fetch('https://example.com')
Returns the body as string.
await response.text()
Returns the body parsed as JSON.
await response.json()
Returns the body as ReadableStream.
let result = ''
response.body.on('data', (chunk) => {
result += chunk
})
response.body.on('end', () => {
const data = JSON.parse(result)
})
FAQs
Auto Fetch local/http
We found that @hckrnews/auto-fetch demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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