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How come fetch hasn't been integrated directly into node, like how its integrated directly into browsers?

it uses a lot of infrastructure that node doesn't have, like Request objects and Response objects and Body objects and mime checking etc etc list goes on.

if someone feels like adding all those things to node and feels like arguing with our core maintainers about the duplication with http then maybe it will be added.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19393

Because Node.js already provides low level network access, while in browsers fetch() is the (second) lowest abstraction you can get to.

I agree “fetch” is good enough in many cases. It doesn’t have all the conviences many clients do, but sometimes those can be added with a simple wrapper function tailored to your use case.

I don't think fetch provides progress indicators yet which can hamper its usage if you want good UX for certain operations like uploads.