Message from JavaScript discussions
September 2017
— I've been reading a little on polyfills and stuff
But I don't really come to understand what this library or the isomorphic-fetch one, for example, do
— What's actually a Fetch polyfill?
— No, because map / forEach passes 3 args
— Fetch is a browser API, polyfills generally implement APIs that aren't available in older browsers (like promises), in case of these node modules, it means bringing that browser api to node, since node doesn't already have it. Another example is the jsdom module, which tries to implement the DOM API in node
— And what is the Fetch API used for mainly? It's the one that makes the HTTP calls?
— Yep
— HTTP(S) client library
— And it's a GOOD API too
— But for nodejs you also have axios
— And my own simple snippet even:
https://github.com/trgwii/req
— (Only does GET atm)