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Request issuing in NodeJS

This document describes a flow of a request issued by different modules/libraries in NodeJS environment.

window.fetch (jsdom)

node-fetch

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ChristopherA commented Mar 29, 2022

You can now do this directly in GitHub's markdown in your gists:

graph TD
  window.fetch --> XMLHttpRequest
  XMLHttpRequest --> request(request, 3rd party)
  request --> protocol{Protocol}
  protocol -- https --> https.request
  protocol -- http --> http.request

  https.request --> ClientRequest
  http.request --> ClientRequest
  ClientRequest --> IncomingMessage
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graph TD
  nodeFetch[node-fetch] --> protocol{Protocol}
  protocol -- https --> https.request
  protocol -- http --> http.request
  https.request --> ClientRequest
  http.request --> ClientRequest
  ClientRequest --> IncomingMessage
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Nice, @ChristopherA! I didn't know that.

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