A library to simplify REST API requests and to provide utilities for handling common REST API consumer scenarios


Keywords
https, rest, api, client, request, library
License
MIT
Install
npm install reqlib@1.0.13

Documentation

Simple Request Library

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Request Constructor

new Request(options)

import { Request } from 'reqlib';

const
  options = {
    maxRedirectCount : 5, // # of redirects to follow
    maxRetryCount : 3, // # of times to retry in the event of a 5xx
    timeout : 1000 // milliseconds
  },
  req = new Request(options);

(async () => {
  try {
    let result = await req.get('https://test.api.io/v1/tests');
    console.log(result);
  } catch (ex) {
    console.error(ex);
  }
})();

options

The Request object accepts all otions from the standard http.request (and https.request) object (see Node v10.x Documentation) in addition to a few additional convenient options.

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#post

#put

Resource Constructor

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