How to make HTTP client requests with Deno

Question

I'm playing around with Deno but I can't find the standard HTTP client.

I also googled "deno http client" which gives me https://deno.land/x/std/http/client/, but the link is broken. Something was indexed by Google and later removed from the repo.

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I found 3rd party libraries soxa and deno-http but I am looking for something standard.

Is there a standard HTTP client for Deno that I am missing?

Answer 1

deno implements a variety of Web APIs. To make an HTTP request in deno you use fetch.

const res = await fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1');
const data = await res.json();

Web APIs are exposed to the global scope the same way they're in the browser. deno aims to be browser compatible whenever it's possible.

You'll also be able to use:

• FormData
• Headers
• cache (.put & .match supported)