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Streaming comes to zlFetch

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

If you’ve never heard of zlFetch before, it’s a library that I’ve created that helps you with the Fetch API. It provides a ton of quality of life improvements like:

  • Automatic response solution (so no need to use response.json)
  • Promise-like error handling
  • Usage with await easily
  • Simple Basic and Token based authentication headers
  • And a ton of other things​

Just my personal opinion:

  • It’s better than axios cos it’s less complicated
  • It’s better than ky cos it has better defaults

Last Sunday, I sat down and gave zlFetch a brand new update — streaming capabilities.

  • zlFetch can detect and convert streams automatically
  • zlFetch has a new retry functionality with zlEventSource
  • zlFetch now has types support so it Typescript users won’t have to face red wriggly line complaints. This update is thanks to Juji.
  • zlFetch now has aborting capabilities built in by default — no need to create a new abort controller!

​Read this article for more info​

With new streaming capabilities, zlFetch is better primed for supporting a brand new influx of AI-first applications.

I’m really excited at what this means — and potentially what I’ll be able to build.

I hope you have fun with zlFetch!

Hi! My name is Zell and here are the things I’ve made

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