3 Promise-based Http Clients to use in NodeJS

Hi Coders,

Today I am going to discuss promise based http clients that I am using in my current Node.js project at DLT Labs.

Promise-based clients are better than callback

An http client is useful whenever a request needs to be sent to another server. As we all know, callback is an old concept. So we need an http client which is promise-based.

Here are 3 of the most reliable http clients which can be used in Node.js :

• Axios
• Request-promise
• Superagent

Let’s understand the format and dependencies of each of the above packages.

1) Axios

Along with node.js, Axios supports almost all the latest versions of browsers i.e. Firefox, Chrome, IE, Edge, Safari for sending requests.

For installing using npm :

npm install axios

Using then/catch:

let axios = require(“axios”);
axios({
 method: “POST”,
url: “https://abc.com/api/auth/change/password” ,
data:{
   “oldpassword”: “test124”,
   “newpassword”: “test12@”
}).then(response=>{
    console.log(response)…