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Universal WHATWG Fetch API for Node, Browsers, Workers and React Native. The scenario that cross-fetch really shines is when the same JavaScript codebase needs to run on different platforms.
- **Platform agnostic**: browsers, Node or React Native
- **Optional polyfill**: it's up to you if something is going to be added to the global object or not
- **Simple interface**: no instantiation, no configuration and no extra dependency
- **WHATWG compliant**: it works the same way wherever your code runs
- **TypeScript support**: better development experience with types.
- **Worker support**: works on different types of workers such as Service Workers and CloudFlare Workers
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## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Install](#install)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Demo \& API](#demo--api)
- [FAQ](#faq)
- [Yet another fetch library?](#yet-another-fetch-library)
- [Why polyfill might not be a good idea?](#why-polyfill-might-not-be-a-good-idea)
- [How does cross-fetch work?](#how-does-cross-fetch-work)
- [Who's Using It?](#whos-using-it)
- [Thanks](#thanks)
- [License](#license)
- [Author](#author)
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## Install
```sh
npm install --save cross-fetch
```
As a [ponyfill](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ponyfill) (imports locally):
```javascript
// Using ES6 modules with Babel or TypeScript
import fetch from 'cross-fetch';
// Using CommonJS modules
const fetch = require('cross-fetch');
```
As a polyfill (installs globally):
```javascript
// Using ES6 modules
import 'cross-fetch/polyfill';
// Using CommonJS modules
require('cross-fetch/polyfill');
```
The CDN build is also available on unpkg:
```html
<script src="//unpkg.com/cross-fetch/dist/cross-fetch.js"></script>
```
This adds the fetch function to the window object. Note that this is not UMD compatible.
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## Usage
With [promises](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise):
```javascript
import fetch from 'cross-fetch';
// Or just: import 'cross-fetch/polyfill';
fetch('//api.github.com/users/lquixada')
.then(res => {
if (res.status >= 400) {
throw new Error("Bad response from server");
}
return res.json();
})
.then(user => {
console.log(user);
})
.catch(err => {
console.error(err);
});
```
With [async/await](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function):
```javascript
import fetch from 'cross-fetch';
// Or just: import 'cross-fetch/polyfill';
(async () => {
try {
const res = await fetch('//api.github.com/users/lquixada');
if (res.status >= 400) {
throw new Error("Bad response from server");
}
const user = await res.json();
console.log(user);
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
}
})();
```
## Demo & API
You can find a comprehensive doc at [Github's fetch](https://github.github.io/fetch/) page. If you want to play with cross-fetch, check our [**JSFiddle playground**](https://jsfiddle.net/lquixada/3ypqgacp/).
> **Tip**: Run the fiddle on various browsers and with different settings (for instance: cross-domain requests, wrong urls or text requests). Don't forget to open the console in the test suite page and play around.
## FAQ
#### Yet another fetch library?
I did a lot of research in order to find a fetch library that could be simple, cross-platform and provide polyfill as an option. There's a plethora of libs out there but none could match those requirements.
#### Why polyfill might not be a good idea?
In a word? Risk. If the spec changes in the future, it might be problematic to debug. Read more about it on [sindresorhus's ponyfill](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ponyfill#how-are-ponyfills-better-than-polyfills) page. It's up to you if you're fine with it or not.
#### How does cross-fetch work?
Just like isomorphic-fetch, it is just a proxy. If you're in node, it delivers you the [node-fetch](https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch/) library, if you're in a browser or React Native, it delivers you the github's [whatwg-fetch](https://github.com/github/fetch/). The same strategy applies whether you're using polyfill or ponyfill.
## Who's Using It?
|[](https://www.nytimes.com/)|[](https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/)|[](https://github.com/facebook/fbjs/)|[](https://swagger.io/)|[](http://vulcanjs.org)|[](https://github.com/prisma/graphql-request)|
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|The New York Times|Apollo GraphQL|Facebook|Swagger|VulcanJS|graphql-request|
## Thanks
Heavily inspired by the works of [matthew-andrews](https://github.com/matthew-andrews). Kudos to him!
## License
cross-fetch is licensed under the [MIT license](https://github.com/lquixada/cross-fetch/blob/main/LICENSE) © [Leonardo Quixadá](https://twitter.com/lquixada/)
## Author
|[](https://github.com/lquixada)|
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|[@lquixada](http://www.github.com/lquixada)|
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