snuffles: A JavaScript repository from Uepsilon

A wrapper around the native fetch function, providing a more convenient way to use it

At its core, Snuffles is just a very slim wrapper around the native fetch function. It allows for setting a base url and default options for your request, provides some wrappers around some of the more frequently used HTTP methods and takes care of all casing. You send camelCased objects in, you get camelCased objects out.

Installation

npm install --save snuffles

Usage

import Snuffles from 'snuffles'

export default function myApiWrapper() {
  cosnt defaultOptions = {
    headers: {
      'X-AUTH-TOKEN': 'my-secret-token'
    }
  }

  const api = new Snuffles('http://base-url.tld', defaultOptions)
  
  const user = api.get('/user')
}

To create a new instance of Snuffles:

const api = new Snuffles(baseUrl[, defaultOptions])

baseUrl: The base url of the API you want to make requests agains
defaultOptions (optional): An Object, containing a set of default options you want to sent in every request, e.g. headers for authentication

As of now, Snuffles has wrappers for 5 request methods:

get(path[, options])
post(path[, options])
put(path[, options])
patch(path[, options])
delete(path[, options])

Where

path: the path you want that specific request to go to
options (optional): An Object containing a set of options you want to merge with the base options on this specific request. Options passed to the wrapper functions are deep-merged, but will override identical keys.

Options

Snuffles accepts all options that fetch accepts as its init parameter (docs). In fact, snuffles does not validate the options that are passed at all.

Using querystrings

Snuffles does support the setting of querystrings via its options parameter. You can pass in a query object with the desired key-value-pairs.
For example:

const api = new Snuffles('http://base-url.tld')

const options = {
  query: {
    'name': 'sirius',
    'animal': 'dog'
  }
}

const user = api.get('/user', options)

// => fetch('http://base-url.tld/user?name=sirius&animal=dog')

Casing

Snuffles will take care of transforming the casing of response and request bodies, so that you can pass in a camelCased object as a request body (passed via options.body) and get out the response body as a camelCased object as well.

License

Dog Illustrastion from Pixabay under CC0-License.