isomorphic-fetch

isomorphic-fetch

Fetch for node and Browserify. Built on top of GitHub's WHATWG Fetch polyfill.

Warnings

• This adds fetch as a global so that its API is consistent between client and server.

For ease-of-maintenance and backward-compatibility reasons, this library will always be a polyfill. As a "safe" alternative, which does not modify the global, consider fetch-ponyfill.

Why Use Isomorphic Fetch

The Fetch API is currently not implemented consistently across browsers. This module will enable you to use fetch in your Node code in a cross-browser compliant fashion. The Fetch API is part of the Web platform API defined by the standards bodies WHATWG and W3C.

Installation

NPM

npm install --save isomorphic-fetch

Bower

bower install --save isomorphic-fetch

Usage

require('isomorphic-fetch');

fetch('//offline-news-api.herokuapp.com/stories')
	.then(function(response) {
		if (response.status >= 400) {
			throw new Error("Bad response from server");
		}
		return response.json();
	})
	.then(function(stories) {
		console.log(stories);
	});

License

All open source code released by FT Labs is licenced under the MIT licence. Based on the fine work by jxck.

Alternatives

• cross-fetch
• Using node-fetch and the Fetch polyfill directly (or from polyfill.io, or relying on the browser's implementation of the Fetch API).

Similar packages

Other packages similar to isomorphic-fetch

axios

Axios is a popular HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. It provides a promise-based API and has a similar feature set to isomorphic-fetch, including interceptors, automatic transforms for JSON data, and cancellation of requests. Axios also provides more detailed configuration options for requests compared to isomorphic-fetch.

node-fetch

Node-fetch is a light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js. It is similar to isomorphic-fetch but is specifically designed for Node.js environments. Unlike isomorphic-fetch, node-fetch does not provide a polyfill for the browser environment.

whatwg-fetch

Whatwg-fetch is a polyfill for the Fetch API for browsers that do not support it natively. It is similar to isomorphic-fetch in that it allows the use of the Fetch API in the browser, but it does not provide support for Node.js environments.

cross-fetch

Cross-fetch is another library that provides a polyfill for the Fetch API for both Node.js and browser environments. It is similar to isomorphic-fetch in its universal approach, but it may have different implementation details or additional features.