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#### Why fetch (from `core/utils/fetch`)?
This was originally created to add and extract headers to the requests for authentication purposes. When we moved to the middleware approach it seems that this is just a wrapper around `whatwg-fetch`. As a note - this wrapper isn't really necessary anymore.

#### Why `parseResponse`?
This was created, in part, due to API issues. Since `500` errors were occuring and responding with `text/html` content type, it was causing errors when we were trying to parse the response. 

#### Why `apiMiddlware`?
We moved to `apiMiddleware` to replace the `fetch` from `core/utils`.