axios VS request

Note, you can use any library for HTTP requests like axios. This example uses the http and node-fetch libraries available on npm.

Interact with other APIs over an encrypted channel. For example, you can use Axios with Node.js.

For this article, I will be using the TypeScript Starter template as shown in the screenshot above. This comes with Nodejs, Cheerio, Axios

Axios is suitable for a wide range of web development projects, from simple single-page applications (SPAs) to complex, large-scale enterprise software.

Axios for streamlined API interactions, facilitating seamless data fetching.

Axios is a popular HTTP client library for Node.js that provides a more user-friendly and feature-rich way to make HTTP requests. Axios simplifies error handling and supports features like automatic JSON parsing and request/response interceptors, making it a great choice for many HTTP request scenarios.

For this tutorial, we’re going to scan the file for malware using Verisys Antivirus API, and so we’ll add a package to make it easier to make external HTTP requests. Popular choices include Axios and node-fetch - for this article, we’ll use node-fetch

In the dynamic realm of JavaScript and front-end development, selecting the appropriate tool for HTTP requests is critical. Axios and Fetch stand out as two leading contenders, each offering distinct features and benefits. This article delves into their differences and practical applications, providing a comprehensive comparison.

Once you start to handle all the corner-cases of the fetch, you will find that you don't want to repeat the boilerplate each time you call network, so you will write some wrapper around the fetch or use redaxios library from Jason Miller, which provides axios-like API on top of fetch so it weights only 800 bytes, which is nice. But then you might need the axios interceptors which redaxios do not implement and if your application upload files and you want to track the upload progress with ProgressEvent, the fetch does not support that, only XMLHttpRequest does, on which the original axios is based. And after you write all your custom wrappers around fetch and upload wrappers around XMLHttpRequest, you might reconcider the original statement, that axios library is obsoleted.

Install the package Axios into your application like this:

request for HTTP requests outside of the browser.

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Numéro officiel dans le dépôt `` Demande 'pour les alternatives: https://github.com/request/request/issues/3143

It's really that they no longer accept any fixes, as the library is officially deprecated.

>As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time.

But 18,302,678 weekly downloads[0] haven't noticed...

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/request

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to ini >=1.3.6 to avoid a prototype pollution issue npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to ini >=1.3.6 to avoid a prototype pollution issue npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to ini >=1.3.6 to avoid a prototype pollution issue npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-url#deprecated npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The functionality that this package provided is now in u/npmcli/arborist npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-resolve#deprecated npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Chokidar 2 will break on node v14+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Chokidar 2 will break on node v14+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797) npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797) npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797) npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797) npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade to version 7 or higher. Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic. See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This SVGO version is no longer supported. Upgrade to v2.x.x. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: You can find the new Popper v2 at u/popperjs/core, this package is dedicated to the legacy v1 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: TSLint has been deprecated in favor of ESLint. Please see https://github.com/palantir/tslint/issues/4534 for more information.

This library has been deprecated for a long time and the authors have been encouraging people to migrate to other libraries. I seriously doubt that they will fix it. People should not be using it.

`npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade to version 7 or higher. Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic. See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: < 19.2.0 is no longer supported [##################] - reify:cssstyle: timing r

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142

request was deprecated in 2020 and still has 16 million weekly downloads.