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remove "light weight" from "A light-weight module that brings Fetch API to Node.js." #1637
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once web-streams-polyfill release v4 then it will drop it's size again... |
I don't see anything in v4 that justifies the claim that it'll be drastically smaller? |
v3 have many build version to choose from |
Cool. But in the mean time there is no indication that it's being actively worked on (just incidentally), and as a user of Unless |
Why is this closed, the term lightweight is very misleading and it's been huge in size for more than a year now with no real indication of a solution any time soon. |
It where was once "lightweight" before we decided to make blob streams spec compatible by introducing whatwg streams polyfill that will conditionally be loaded. |
On a different note, Node 18 has native Fetch API built in (it was experimentally available in 17.5) so if you have the option of using the current LTS version of Node, you no longer even need node-fetch (as well as quite a few other packages that shimmed or polyfilled network fetching functionality). |
Nitpicking, but:
node-fetch
is an almost 8MB install. It is very much not light weight (even if its own code is, it is heavily weighed down by the 7.5MBweb-streams-polyfill
dependency used byfetch-blob
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