ArtRestClient

Promise-based rest-client javascript library. Makes HTTP/HTTPS easy.

Works both in browser and NodeJs.

Features

• promise based
• streamlined JSON requests
• streamlined binary support
• CORS friendly

Install

npm install art-rest-client

Example

RestClient = require './art-rest-client'

RestClient.getJson "http://somewhere.com/users/123"
.then ({username, email}) ->
  RestClient.putJson "http://somewhere.com/users/123",
    username: "Mr New #{username}"

Info

uses XMLHttpRequest2:

• http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/
• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/xhr2/
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/xhr2

Future?

The new-new is 'fetch' - seems to be getting decent support

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
• https://caniuse.com/#feat=fetch