@wordpress/api-fetch remove window dependency to support node env

[isBatak]

I'm trying to use @wordpress/api-fetch on node (decoupled WordPress and SSR), but it is not easy to polyfill fetch because of window.fetch usage https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/master/packages/api-fetch/src/index.js#L161 and I don't want to reimplement whole defaultFetchHandler logic with setFetchHandler solution. I just want to replace fetch with something else like isomorphic-fetch.

Solution:

• use just fetch

[isBatak]

@swissspidy I'm planning to make a PR for this feature, this is the idea isBatak@72e3505 for the API. But, now tests are failing and I have no idea how to fix them. Do you have any suggestion?

[swissspidy]

Well which tests are failing...? If you'd create the PR already then you could point to the failing tests on Travis CI and more easily get technical feedback from maintainers.

[isBatak]

I'll make a PR now, and see what will happen :D

[talldan]

The PR #17574 seems to have plenty of technical feedback, so I'm removing that label.

Also removing In Progress, since the PR hasn't had recent updates.

[hypest]

FYI, added this to the "Mobile Apps" project board to cover the apps side of the issue.

[iamandrewluca]

Besides this solutions

• Implement setFetchReference - remove window dependency to support Node env #17574 apiFetch.setFetchReference( fetch );
• @wordpress/api-fetch use remove window dependency. #22852 using globalThis.fetch

another solution would be to export a factory function

import { createApiFetch } from '@wordpress/api-fetch'

// Browser
const apiFetch = createApiFetch({ fetch: window.fetch })

// Node
const apiFetch = createApiFetch({ fetch: require('node-fetch') })

My workaround

import fetch from 'node-fetch'
global.window = { fetch }
import apiFetch from '@wordpress/api-fetch'

apiFetch({ path: '/wp-json/wp/v2/users' }).then(console.log)