NodeJS 18 introduced some new cool features and one of the most useful ones is the built in Fetch API. What this means is that we longer need to use 3rd party npm packages like node-fetch because the functionality is now native and baked into Node. T...

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 NodeJS 18 introduced the built in Fetch API. This means that we no longer need to use 3rd party packages like node-fetch. This is one less dependency that we need to install so our node_modules folders should be a little lighter. To learn more check out the official announcement.

The NodeJS 18 Fetch API

Great introduction to the new fetch API! It seems to be a really promising API and also easy to use!!
I have one question about the fetch API.
Are you aware if it provides something similar to the interceptors available with axios or angular http service?
Thank you for this awesome post! 🚀

Awesome introduction. I personally will wait until 18 goes LTS which is estimated for Q4 of this year so that is not too long, but looking forward to it.