A super simple, and super fast HTTP request builder for NodeJS projects.
If you want to send some simple http requests to a known URL, and you don't need anything too fancy, this is the module for you.
Things like Axios is an awesome and super useful module. But it's not small, and it definitely will increase your shippable JS bundle size. This might be a nice simple drop in alternative.
You could (and perhaps should?) write your request with node:http directly of course. But it's not a small amount of code, and I for one always have to check the NodeJS docs to make sure I have it right.
This can be found in testbed.
import { req } from '../index.js';
const data = await req({ url: 'http://localhost', path: '/', port: 4001 });
console.log( data );- Investigae if an http Agent is a good performance boost
Is it production ready? Yes. It works, and it doesn't kill your CPU or Memory. You can use it in production. In fact, I have. But, it's your call.
Why not just use module XYZ?
Because I like building things, and I like to understand how to build things. The same could be asked when using external modules. Why not just use node:http?
Why not TypeScript? Because it's JavaScript. There's JSDoc annotations for your IDE to help you, but TypeScript (IMO) doesn't add as much value as I get from properly typed languages, and I feel like it adds a lot of extra noise to the code. Not to mention the fact that I feel when writing TypeScript, I'm definitely not writing JavaScript, which is a shame.
Why is it a "type": "module"?
Just because Node has been draggin it's feet with ESModules, it doesn't mean we have to! Let's embrace the future, together.