nanorequest

Sometimes you just want to make a small request with a callback.

About

Sometimes, when you're testing an API for example, request is too large to install as as devDependency. Or might you don't need hawk authentication? Perhaps you're just sending JSON so you don't really care about multipart/mime (although this can handle that, you just gotta do the work yourself...).

This is not a full-featured library for sending and working with HTTP requests though. If you need something that isn't supported, you're likely looking at the wrong library. The idea here to really just wrap the built-in http.request method so you can use a callback and not deal with all the events crap.

Version 2.0.0 and higher requires node 8. If you want to use node 7 or earlier, you can continue to use ^1.0.0.

Installation

npm install nanorequest

Usage

const request = require('nanorequest')
// or!
import { nanorequest } from 'nanorequest'

const opts = {
  url: 'https://google.com'
}

const req = request(opts, (err, res, body) => {
  // do something with these things
})

// or with promises
request(opts)
  .then(({res, body}) => {}) // do something with these things
  .catch((err) => {}) // error out!

// or with async/await
try {
  const {res, body} = request(opts)
} catch (err) {
  console.log(err, err.res.statusCode, err.body)
}

API

nanorequest(opts:object(key:string), cb(err:Error, res:Response, body:(mixed)):function):Request|Promise

The opts object matches the options used in http.request, but accepts an optional url field.

opts.url:string - the URL you want to request. Will be parsed with url.parse.

The final parameter to the callback will depend on the content-type header returned from the server:

application/json: this will be parsed and the object will returned
text/*: the buffer will be converted to a string and returned
otherwise a buffer will be returned

If the callback is omitted, the function with return a Promise instead of returning the request.

toddself/nanorequest