fetch-with-timeout

Cancels HTTP requests with the Abort API. Bring your own Fetch API implementation.

🤔 Should I make this a proper package and publish it to npm?

Requirements

• Node.js >= v16.0.0

Note: This library won't be needed in future versions of Node.js which support AbortSignal.timeout.

Installation

npm install github:simonplend/fetch-with-timeout

Usage

/**
 * This could be any implementation of the Fetch API.
 */
import fetch from "node-fetch";

import { createFetchWithTimeout } from "fetch-with-timeout";

const fetchWithTimeout = createFetchWithTimeout({ fetch, timeout: 100 });

try {
	const url = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts";
	const response = await fetchWithTimeout(url);
	const responseData = await response.json();

	console.log({ responseData });
} catch (error) {
	console.error(error);
}

TODO

• Throw a custom error instance e.g. FetchTimeout
• Add tests
• Add types
• Improve the README
  • Link to James Snell's article
  • Link to my 'How to cancel an HTTP request in Node.js' article
  • Link to my NodeConf Remote talk
• Publish to npm