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A maintained, promise-based HTTP client for Node.js often recommended as a replacement.
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request
The once ubiquitous simplified HTTP client for Node.js.
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Why revive it
request still has a huge number of dependents, many of which are unmaintained themselves and keep pulling it into projects with known issues.
Revival goal
Help dependents migrate to maintained HTTP clients, or provide a compatible drop-in.
Status
Abandoned
The maintainers have explicitly stopped or clearly walked away.
Why it was abandoned
Deprecated by its maintainers in February 2020; no further releases.
Existing revival efforts
Forks, rewrites, successors and alternatives that continue or replace request.
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