Alastor

Hellish-fast asynchronous HTTP client for NodeJS

Features

• ~12kb size (smaller than the competition)
• Uses TypeScript that provides hints in editor, type checking, etc.
• Asynchronous, allowing both .then chaining and async/await
• No dependencies
• Class abstraction

Installing

Node.js 8.0.0 or newer is required

npm install alastor

Simple Example

// Require using ES6 syntax
import Alastor from 'alastor';

// Or using old fancy style
const Alastor = require('alastor');

// async based implementation
(async () => {
  const res = await alastor('https://example.com');
  const body = await res.text();
})();

// .then based implementation
alastor('https://example.com')
  .then((res) => res.text())
  .then((body) => {
    console.log(body);
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(err);
  });

More examples can be found in the examples folder.

Size Comparisons

Alastor is designed to be as light-weight as possible but also have a programmatically powerful API.

Package	Size
alastor
node-fetch
axios
superagent
request

License

Refer to the LICENSE file.