# r2

> HTTP client. Spiritual successor to request.

Latest version **2.0.1** (published 2018-04-06) · Apache-2.0 license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install r2
pnpm add r2
yarn add r2
bun add r2
```

## Health

**Score 15/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: no vulnerabilities.

Warnings: low downloads; no types; no esm support.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.0.1 |
| Published | 2018-04-06 |
| First published | 2015-02-01 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 3 |
| Unpacked size | 20.7 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 4403 |
| Author | Mikeal Rogers |
| Maintainers | mikeal |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/r2
- Repository: https://github.com/mikeal/r2
- Homepage: https://github.com/mikeal/r2#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/mikeal/r2/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/r2

## Dependencies (3)

- [caseless](https://npm.io/package/caseless.md) ^0.12.0
- [node-fetch](https://npm.io/package/node-fetch.md) ^2.0.0-alpha.8
- [typedarray-to-buffer](https://npm.io/package/typedarray-to-buffer.md) ^3.1.2

## Recent versions

- 2.0.1 (latest) — 2018-04-06
- 2.0.0 — 2017-09-27
- 1.0.0 — 2015-02-01

## README

# r2

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Early in Node.js I wrote an HTTP client library called `request`. It evolved
along with Node.js and eventually became very widely depended upon.

A lot has changed since 2010 and I've decided to re-think what a simple
HTTP client library should look like.

This new library, `r2`, is a completely new approach from `request`.

* Rather than being built on top of the Node.js Core HTTP library and
  shimmed for the browser, `r2` is built on top of the browser's
  Fetch API and shimmed for Node.js.
* APIs are meant to be used with async/await, which means they are
  based on promises.

```javascript
const r2 = require('r2')

let html = await r2('https://www.google.com').text
```

Simple JSON support.

```javascript
let obj = {ok: true}

let resp = await r2.put('http://localhost/test.json', {json: obj}).json
```

Simple headers support.

```javascript
let headers = {'x-test': 'ok'}

let res = await r2('http://localhost/test', {headers}).response
```

Being written to the Fetch API is a huge benefit for browser users.

When running through browserify `request` is ~2M uncompressed and ~500K compressed. `r2` is only 66K uncompressed and 16K compressed.

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