r2

  

Early in Node.js I wrote an HTTP client library called request. It evolved
along with Node.js and eventually became very widely depended upon.

A lot has changed since 2010 and I've decided to re-think what a simple
HTTP client library should look like.

This new library, r2, is a completely new approach from request.

* Rather than being built on top of the Node.js Core HTTP library and
shimmed for the browser, r2 is built on top of the browser's
Fetch API and shimmed for Node.js.
* APIs are meant to be used with async/await, which means they are
based on promises.

``javascript
const r2 = require('r2')

let html = await r2('https://www.google.com').text
`

Simple JSON support.

`javascript
let obj = {ok: true}

let resp = await r2.put('http://localhost/test.json', {json: obj}).json
`

Simple headers support.

`javascript
let headers = {'x-test': 'ok'}

let res = await r2('http://localhost/test', {headers}).response
`

Being written to the Fetch API is a huge benefit for browser users.

When running through browserify request is ~2M uncompressed and ~500K compressed. r2` is only 66K uncompressed and 16K compressed.