Shred - a simple/fun/easy HTTP client for node.js

by thedaniel • 15 years ago

31 5 15 years ago

Looks nice. Comment/suggestion: if there is no reason to have more than one instance of Shred (and it appears not), then require('shred') should just return a new instance.

dyoder• 15 years ago

Thanks for your suggestion, Matthew.

We do anticipate some applications wanting more than one instance. There are two scenarios where this comes up.

1. You want separate connections per instance. This is useful in load testing, among other things.

2. You want to provide different default options for different instances.

Neither of these scenarios is supported very well in this release, but we expect to add support for them shortly.

LeafStorm• 15 years ago

Is there anything like this for client-side JS that wraps XMLHttpRequest?

rwolf• 15 years ago

Assuming you're not using jQuery because of the heft, I suggest: https://github.com/ded/reqwest

The conspicuously absent feature from shred is the nice sugar for handling status codes.

adrianscott• 15 years ago

kind of an unfortunate name, given that there's a linux command by that name...

Shred - a simple/fun/easy HTTP client for node.js

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