smallxhr

Very Small XHR library for easy, minimal cross-browser requests.

Usage

Basic GET

var xhr = require('smallxhr');

// GET example.com
xhr('http://example.com', null, function(error, data, xhrResponse) {
  if (error) {
    throw error;
  }
  console.log('status: ' + xhrResponse.status);
  console.log(data);
});

Complete POST

var xhr = require('smallxhr');

var postData = JSON.stringify({foo: 'bar'});

// POST example.com with data
xhr('http://example.com', postData, function(error, data, xhrResponse) {
  if (error) {
    throw error;
  }
  console.log('status: ' + xhrResponse.status);
  console.log(data);
}, 'POST', 'application/json', 30000);

API

smallxhr(url, data, callback, method, contenttype, timeout, headers)

• url - The url to send the request to
• data - Data to send with the request. Should be a string or null.
• callback - Executed on success or failure with params (error, data, xhrResponse)
• method - Any HTTP verb
• contenttype - Any HTTP content type (default: application/x-www-form-urlencoded)
• timeout - time in milliseconds before the request should be cancelled (default: 5000)
• headers - key-value pairs for specifying extra headers to be sent (default: {})

Callback

function(error, data, xhrResponse)

• error - An Error object with a custom attribute type
  • error.type - one of 'timeout' for a timeout error, or 'http' to indicate you should check the value of xhrResponse.statusCode.
• data - Any data returned from the request
• xhrResponse - The XMLHttpRequest object

Installation

npm install --save smallxhr

Thanks

• Simon Doodkin's original tinyxhr gist
• Scott Duncombe's updates