Package deprecated

[ethanent]

Please reply if you have any questions about Phin's deprecation.

Some popular alternatives (no endorsement, I may not have used them) include:

• Axios: axios/axios
• node-fetch: node-fetch/node-fetch
• The built-in HTTP library: https://nodejs.org/api/http.html

Please migrate to another HTTP request solution at your earliest convenience.

[yetzt]

But why?

[ASaiAnudeep]

@ethanent could you help us understanding the reason behind deprecating this package. Let me know if we can maintain phin and centra under our org - https://github.com/pactumjs

[yetzt]

i made a fork, pulled in centra, fixed some bugs, added features, removed the tests for now because the testing library (whew) was unpublished too... ported the tests; it's pretty much a drop in replacement, i will use it in my own packages and implement updates and fixes as needed.

feel free to use it, send pull requests or give feedback.

[XuluWarrior]

@yetzt It would be good know what bugs were fixed and what features were added :)

[XuluWarrior]

Regarding the deprecation of this package, I note in the npm stats that it has 1 million weekly downloads.
It would be great if there was a (semi)official continuation of this project with a new maintainer
(@yetzt's efforts are already appreciated)

[yetzt]

It would be good know what bugs were fixed and what features were added :)

#88 (compressed streams throw exception), #78 (redirect limit) and #79 (centra query is not exposed)

i'm looking into the other issues as well.

[ethanent]

Hi all, version 4.0.0 of the library has been released which uses Axios under the hood and is not deprecated currently. Give it a try! Thanks for your comments.

[jdforsythe]

Hi all, version 4.0.0 of the library has been released which uses Axios under the hood and is not deprecated currently. Give it a try! Thanks for your comments.

If axios was suggested as an alternative, but now this uses axios under the hood, what is this providing that axios doesn't?

[sleeyax]

This situation is being handled poorly, OP. You're not answering any questions about the deprecation (like you said you would) and there are infinitely better options than just republishing axios... It's like no thought was put into this at all.

I recommend to unpublish v4 and transform this issue into a discussion so we, as a community, can figure out the future of this package. Together. Communication is key in open source.

[ethanent]

Hi! Let's move the discussion about v4 to #92. Thank you.

[ethanent]

Maintainers wanted: #94