Bitquest

Makes writing JSON requests with fetch easier, in Bitrock style!

Bitquest is a tiny (0.5kb min/gz) fetch wrapper that can be used in the browser (IE11+) and Node.

Before

// POST /users
fetch('/users', {
  method: 'post',
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    name: 'Typicode',
    login: 'typicode',
  })
})
.then(function(response) {
  if (response.status >= 200 && response.status < 300) {
    return response.json()
  }
  throw new Error(response.statusText)
})
.then(function(json) {
  // ...
})

After

// POST /users
bitquest('/users').post({
  name: 'Typicode',
  login: 'typicode'
})
.then(function(json) {
  // ...
})

.get(), .put(), .patch() and .delete() methods are also available.

Installation

Bitquest is available on NPM.

Browser

npm install es6-promise whatwg-fetch # polyfills
npm install bitquest

Node

npm install node-fetch bitquest --save

Usage examples

import bitquest from 'bitquest';

const posts = bitquest('/posts')

//posts
posts.get()
posts.post({ title: 'Bitquest' })

//posts?category=javascript
posts.get({ category: 'javascript' })

//posts/1
posts(1).get()
posts(1).put({ title: 'Bitquest is simple' })
posts(1).patch({ title: 'Bitquest is simple' })
posts(1).delete()

const comments = posts('1/comments')

//posts/1/comments
comments.get()

//posts/1/comments/1
comments(1).get()

You can also pass fetch options to bitquest()

const posts = bitquest('/posts', fetchOptions)
const comments = posts('1/comments') // Will inherit fetchOptions

To catch errors

bitquest('/posts')
  .get()
  .catch(function(err) {
    console.log(err)
  })

To enable CORS

const request = bitquest('/', { mode: 'cors' })
const posts = request('posts')

To fetch plain text (for example, HTML views)

const request = bitquest('/', { responseAs: 'text' })
const posts = request('posts')

responseAs can be response, text or json (default)

To use bitquest in Node, you need to install node-fetch and configure fetchival to use it

const bitquest = require('bitquest')
bitquest.fetch = require('node-fetch')

Browser Support

Chrome	Firefox	IE	Opera	Safari	Edge
Latest ✔	Latest ✔	11 ✔	Latest ✔	6.1+ ✔	Latest ✔

Forking fetchival

We forked the original project Fetchival because we liked the idea of using standard Fetch API with a thin layer on top of it to avoid boilerplate on projects, but we needed to have it fashioned on our code style & worfklow.

Notable changes from fetchival are:

• the name
• removed browser version (you can build it from source if you need it) and Bower package
• main code refactored in Typescript with a bit more functional approach
• tests have been refactored to Ava.js
• add code linting with XO

License

MIT