Basic-browser-request NPM

basic-browser-request

Another lightweight wrapper around XHR that — according to me — does just enough. Supports chunking, canceling, and JSON.

Installation

npm install basic-browser-request

Usage

var request = require('basic-browser-request');

var requestHandle = request(
  {
    url: 'http://something.whatever/yeah',
    method: 'GET',
    mimeType: 'text/plain',
    onData: function onData(data) {
      console.log(data);
      chunksReceived += 1;
    }
  },
  done
);

function done(error, response, text) {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
  else {
    useCompleteDownloadedText(text);
  }
}

To cancel:

requestHandle.cancelRequest();

If you don't specify a mimeType, it defaults to application/json and done() will be passed a parsed JSON object.

Here's a working example.

In the interest of sort-of compatibility with request, the callback will be passed three parameters:

error: An error object, if there was an error while making the request.
response: An object containing the statusCode, the statusMessage , rawResponse, and xhr: XMLHttpRequest.response. This is not at all the same as a Node response, though, so proceed with caution. The xhr is the XMLHttpRequest used to run the request operation.
body: This is going to be a string or, if the mimeType was application/json, an object.