Simple REST client for node.js https module.
Has a single default export request.
Adds retries and timeout support to https module.
Adds default JSON support to the body and response.
Query parameters parsed from body.
Status code >= 400 will cause a rejection of the call.
No dependencies other than https module.
const request = require('https-client');
const body = {};
const headers = {};
const options = {};
const abortController = new AbortController();
const signal = abortController.signal;
const response = await request('POST', '/v1/endpoint', 'my-host.com', body, headers, options, signal);
port: The port, default 443
retry: number of retries, default 0
response: response timeout in ms, default 10000
deadline: deadline timeout in ms, default 60000
verbose: should log warnings, default true
All options are optional.
request has an optional onChunk parameter which is a function that receives Buffers as chunks
while the request is underway. If passed in, the overall response will be empty and you can
reconstruct the response manually from the chunks. Can be used for response streaming.