make-request

A simple HTTP / HTTPS agent for Node.js.

Documentation

* Installation
* Usage
* Development

Installation

``bash
npm install @dnpr/make-request
`

Usage

`typescript
import { makeRequest } from "@dnpr/make-request"

const httpTarget = "http://httpbin.org"
const httpsTarget = "https://httpbin.org"
const USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"

async function main() {

const headers = {
"accept": "/",
"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
"user-agent": USER_AGENT
}

const testBody = {
message: "hello world"
}

try {

/* A GET request with HTTP. /
const testHttp = makeRequest("GET", httpTarget + "/get")()
console.log((await testHttp).data.toString())

/* A GET request with HTTPS. /
const testHttps = makeRequest("GET", httpsTarget + "/get")()
console.log((await testHttps).data.toString())

/* A GET request with HTTPS and headers. /
const testHttpsHeader =
makeRequest("GET", httpsTarget + "/get")
.useHeaders(headers)()
console.log((await testHttpsHeader).data.toString())

/* A POST request with JSON. /
const testJson =
makeRequest("POST", "https://reqbin.com/echo/post/json")
.useSerializer(JSON.stringify)
.useDeserializer(JSON.parse)({
login: "login", password: "password"
})
console.log((await testJson).data)

/* A bad POST request with incorrectly serialized body. /
const testBadJson =
makeRequest("POST", "https://reqbin.com/echo/post/json")(testBody)
console.log((await testBadJson).data)

} catch (error) {
console.error(error)
}
}

main()
`

Development

$3

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$3

`bash
git clone https://github.com/dnpr/make-request.git
yarn install
`

$3

`bash
npm test
``