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@smithy/abort-controller
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The 'abort-controller' package is a popular implementation of the AbortController interface. It provides similar functionality to @smithy/abort-controller, allowing you to create and manage abort signals for asynchronous operations. It is widely used and well-documented.
While 'axios' is primarily an HTTP client, it has built-in support for request cancellation using AbortController. This makes it a good choice if you need both HTTP request capabilities and abort functionality in one package.
The 'node-fetch' package is a lightweight module that brings window.fetch to Node.js. It supports AbortController for aborting fetch requests, making it a good alternative for handling HTTP requests with abort capabilities.
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A simple abort controller library
The npm package @smithy/abort-controller receives a total of 32,408,892 weekly downloads. As such, @smithy/abort-controller popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @smithy/abort-controller demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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