Javascript Fetch Sucks! Ky is better

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[JrMarquesHD]

This package seems to be a stronger promise for the future. But, I haven't seen any motives to use this one instead of Fetch or Axios (obviously, creating a helper to make this better and concise).

[IvanKleshnin]

I personally don't see throwing 404 and 500 as exceptions a good thing. What do you do in GraphQL where errors have 200 status?
Would be much nicer if they expressed errors as values (and documented possible errors codes... which is not done for fetch – a typical JS insanity)

[henshalb]

What’s actually wrong with fetch? Just wrap it in a function and reuse. Don’t fix it if it’s not broken.

[AndreiZhukouski]

Title: "Javascript Fetch Sucks! Ky is better"

Ky: uses fetch to do the job

[mahmoudelshazly]

in your code snippet retry when status code = 404 (Not Found) 🤨 !? why !

[lemek]

Is this a satire? Please tell me its a satire...

[lihinfei]

hmm...fetch can be available for most cases and go axios if you want interceptor.

[djpunisha]

looks much better then fetch API, I always hated fetch with all its configuration...

[DjamelBouzidi]

Really it's a powerful library, except the missing functionalities such as the progress of load file in upload or download

[pedrodias.fullstack]

Thaaaat's awesome. But right now I have a Task to migrate from Ky to Axios. Maybe this package in the future could be a better choice, but right now I chose Axios!

[moofymoo]

There are dozen of somewhat popular wrappers around native api to make ajax request, picking one based on random yt video is wrong, you need to check out 10 wrappers then pick one or write your own, if you even need a wrapper at that point, maybe going raw without wrappers is better.
And whatever you do, 6 month later someone will blame you for making wrong choice, and not using this weeks coolest thing.

[mfftizl]

I think these libraries contribute to creating a good development environment,
Senior developers are becoming increasingly conservative

[yani]

fetch still does not support upload progress so as ky, there r literally no reasons to switch from this pov, axios does the job perfectly in any scenarios and more mature

[abcq]

"I don't see any valid reason that you can continue using fetch..."

Yeah, sure. Why even bother to use a native API that works totally fine and actually doesn't suck at all, better to add a third-party lib (with possible bugs, maintainance issues and support longevity) that still natively uses the fetch api.

[justafreakable]

You realy don't anything more than fetch.

[gnom-om]

yet another abstraction over abstraction. as usual useless