Node.js HTTP client for distributed systems, built on top of Request.

• Written in TypeScript
• Provides Flow library definitions
• Runnable both on the client- and server-side (?)

• Standard HTTP request library functionality
• Logging
  • Request metrics
  • Correlation ID
• In-memory caching
  • According to the response headers
  • With custom settings
  • Only for 2xx codes (by default)
  • With additional keys (eg. user role)
  • With limit of responses cached
  • Prefetching
• Parsing response
  • Text
  • JSON
  • Images
  • ?
• Rate limiting
  • Arbitrary value
  • Based on the response time
• Serving last known good response in case of failure
• Retrying calls
• Failover - switching to a different URL(s)
• Circuit breaker - to avoid overloading a dead service with unnecessary requests
• Throttling - to avoid making too many requests for the same resource
• Proxy support

• Bare HTTP request library by default
• Possibility to set config per library instance
• Possibility to set/override config per single library call
• Possibility to compute config dynamically and asynchronously
• Support for async/await
• Support for promises

• https://github.com/Netflix/ribbon
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/resilient