native-fetch

Returns native fetch/Request/Headers if available or the node-fetch module if not

An (almost) drop-in replacement for the node-fetch module that returns the native fetch if available or the polyfill if not.

Why?

Some environments such as the Electron Renderer process straddle the node/browser divide with features from both APIs available. In these cases the webpack approach of always using the browser field in your package.json to override requires is too heavy-handed as sometimes you want to use the node version of an API.

Instead we can check for the availability of a given API and return it, rather than the node-polyfill for that API.

Install

You must install a version of node-fetch alongside this module to be used if a native implementation is not available.

$ npm install --save native-fetch node-fetch

Usage

const { default: fetch } = require('native-fetch')

fetch('https://github.com/')
    .then(res => res.text())
    .then(body => console.log(body))