Snekfetch is a fast, efficient, and user-friendly library for making HTTP requests.
The API was inspired by superagent, however it is much smaller and faster. In fact, in browser, it is a mere 4.4kb.
Documentation is available at https://snekfetch.js.org/
const request = require('snekfetch');
request.post('https://httpbin.org/post')
.send({ usingGoodRequestLibrary: true })
.then(r => console.log(r.body)); // r.body is object from json response
request.get('https://s.gc.gy/o-SNAKES.jpg')
.then(r => fs.writeFile('download.jpg', r.body)); // r.body is buffer
request.get('https://s.gc.gy/o-SNAKES.jpg')
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('download.jpg')); // pipes
Available for browser as UMD from unpkg
<script src=https://unpkg.com/snekfetch></script>
FAQs
Just do http requests without all that weird nastiness from other libs
The npm package snekfetch receives a total of 5,921 weekly downloads. As such, snekfetch popularity was classified as popular.
We found that snekfetch demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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