Fetch is a web JS API to do HTTP requests. NodeJS has its own API to do HTTP requests. This add supports for the fetch API.
I think the only benefit it that it makes it easier to share code between front end and back end.
I think the only benefit it that it makes it easier to share code between front end and back end.
This is great news for an ecosystem traditionally extremely fragmented and may lead the way to more consolidation in the JS library space.
It's a great news for people doing both front end and backend I guess, but for people doing NodeJS développement it's just one more option to do http request (which I guess is going to be very similar to the module node-fetch that have existed for a while, without special consolidation effect)
...and that's part of why this is great news. Node APIs are the avocado colored appliances of the JS ecosystem.