What is unirest for NodeJS

Unirest is a set of lightweight HTTP libraries available in multiple languages, built and maintained by Kong, who also maintain the open-source API Gateway Kong.

npm install unirest

unirest

  .post('http://mockbin.com/request')

  .headers({'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'})

  .send({ "parameter": 23, "foo": "bar" })

  .then((response) => {

    console.log(response.body)

  })

Uploading Files

unirest

  .post('http://mockbin.com/request')

  .headers({'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'})

  .field('parameter', 'value') // Form field

  .attach('file', '/tmp/file') // Attachment

  .then(function (response) {

    console.log(response.body)

  })

Custom Entity Body

unirest

  .post('http://mockbin.com/request')

  .headers({'Accept': 'application/json'})

  .send(Buffer.from([1,2,3]))

  .then(function (response) {

    console.log(response.body)

  }

references:

https://github.com/Kong/unirest-nodejs