Stop polyfilling fetch in your npm package

• this-package-uses-fetch

  1 6 2.5
  

tl;dr: Let your users handle it. See https://github.com/BuilderIO/this-package-uses-fetch/

• builder

  16 6,666 9.8 TypeScript

  Drag and drop headless CMS for React, Vue, Svelte, Qwik, and more

  

I’ve maintained a handful of JavaScript SDKs over the years. And for each one, the question of how exactly to provide support for fetch in a Node environment inevitably comes up. In fact, we just recently had to resolve some issues concerning this in our Builder.io SDKs.

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• axios

  439 103,985 8.4 JavaScript

  Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

  

You’re putting together an npm library that involves fetching data. There are many popular packages that can help you (axios, superagent, etc.) but in the spirit of not shipping bulky/redundant JS code to the browser, and the progress which browsers and JavaScript has made over the years, you try to use the platform whenever possible.

• superagent

  16 16,539 4.7 JavaScript

  Ajax for Node.js and browsers (JS HTTP client). Maintained for @forwardemail, @ladjs, @spamscanner, @breejs, @cabinjs, and @lassjs.

  

You’re putting together an npm library that involves fetching data. There are many popular packages that can help you (axios, superagent, etc.) but in the spirit of not shipping bulky/redundant JS code to the browser, and the progress which browsers and JavaScript has made over the years, you try to use the platform whenever possible.

• window.fetch polyfill

  25 25,806 7.9 JavaScript

  A window.fetch JavaScript polyfill.

  

In this case, Github offers a great fetch polyfill for browsers: https://github.com/github/fetch

• node-fetch

  91 8,642 1.7 JavaScript

  A light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js

  

So for all versions of Node.js ≤17, you’ll need a Node fetch polyfill, the most popular of which is node-fetch: https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch

• bun

  288 70,488 10.0 Zig

  Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

  

Bun: support Fetch out-of-the-box

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• wrangler-legacy

  139 3,234 7.3 Rust

  Discontinued 🤠 Home to Wrangler v1 (deprecated)

  

Cloudflare Workers: supports Fetch out-of-the-box

• isomorphic-fetch

  9 6,961 0.0 JavaScript

  Isomorphic WHATWG Fetch API, for Node & Browserify

You can get around some of the above issues using a library called isomorphic-fetch, but not all of them. It also hasn’t been updated since 2015, and is locked on v2.x of node-fetch (whereas v3 has been out for some time now)

• deno

  448 92,907 9.9 Rust

  A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

  

Deno: supports Fetch out-of-the-box

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