request-light

What is request-light?

The request-light npm package is a lightweight HTTP client for making HTTP requests. It is designed to be simple and efficient, providing basic functionalities for making GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests.

What are request-light's main functionalities?

GET Request

This feature allows you to make a GET request to a specified URL and handle the response.

const request = require('request-light');
request.xhr({ url: 'https://api.example.com/data', type: 'GET' }).then(response => {
  console.log(response.responseText);
}).catch(error => {
  console.error(error);
});

POST Request

This feature allows you to make a POST request to a specified URL with a JSON payload.

const request = require('request-light');
request.xhr({ url: 'https://api.example.com/data', type: 'POST', data: JSON.stringify({ key: 'value' }) }).then(response => {
  console.log(response.responseText);
}).catch(error => {
  console.error(error);
});

PUT Request

This feature allows you to make a PUT request to a specified URL with a JSON payload to update existing data.

const request = require('request-light');
request.xhr({ url: 'https://api.example.com/data/1', type: 'PUT', data: JSON.stringify({ key: 'newValue' }) }).then(response => {
  console.log(response.responseText);
}).catch(error => {
  console.error(error);
});

DELETE Request

This feature allows you to make a DELETE request to a specified URL to delete existing data.

const request = require('request-light');
request.xhr({ url: 'https://api.example.com/data/1', type: 'DELETE' }).then(response => {
  console.log(response.responseText);
}).catch(error => {
  console.error(error);
});

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README

request-light

A lightweight request library intended to be used by VSCode extensions.

• NodeJS and browser main entry points
• proxy support: Use configure or HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY env variables to configure the HTTP proxy addresses.

import { xhr, XHRResponse, getErrorStatusDescription } from 'request-light';

const headers = { 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate' };
return xhr({ url: url, followRedirects: 5, headers }).then(response => {
    return response.responseText;
}, (error: XHRResponse) => {
    throw new Error(error.responseText || getErrorStatusDescription(error.status) || error.toString());
});