Approach API URL, not a JS object. Use Axios, not Supertest
goldbergyoni opened this issue · comments
Approaching URL (with Axios for example) and not relating to 'app' object with supertest is better because:
- Not coupled to Express
- Much more popular
- Allows approaching remote servers as well (e.g. staging, production)
@goldbergyoni
I know this is not critical, but why axios?
I found here a list of alternatives.
More info:
- npm trends
- synk report (axios, got, node-fetch)
Maybe we should use node-fetch because it's more specific to node?
Axios has x10 more GitHub stars which tells much better about the community trust and popularity. npm downloads is misleading - You may reach to the top based on one person's decision.
Consequently, Axios eco-system is much bigger: If you search in GitHub for "axios" you'll get 26000 lib which has 'axios' in their title, some of them are plugins. Only 1500 are returned for node-fetch.
Practically, search for a circuit breaker or cache plugins - Axios has plugins with almost 1000 stars, the others plugins have much less
https://github.com/jonbern/fetch-retry#readme
https://github.com/softonic/axios-retry