A library of middleware for enhancing Fetch.

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📖 Table of Contents

• Usage
• Contributing

🤹‍ Usage

• 👩‍💻 Hiring 👨‍💻
• 📖 Table of Contents
• 🤹‍ Usage
  • Installation
  • Fetch Enhancers
  • createTimeoutFetch [Server & Browser]
    • Configuring
    • Example
  • createRetryFetch [Server & Browser]
    • Configuring
    • Example
  • createBrowserLikeFetch [Server only]
    • Configuring
      • headers
      • hostname
      • res
      • setCookie
      • trustedDomains
    • Example
• Composing fetch enhancers
• Creating your own fetch enhancer
• 🏆 Contributing
• 🗝️ License
• 🗣️ Code of Conduct

Installation

npm install --save @americanexpress/fetch-enhancers

Fetch Enhancers

Each fetch enhancer follows the same pattern:

• Called with any arguments required for configuration fetchEnhancer(configuration)
• Return a function which takes a fetch client as the sole argument fetchEnhancer(configuration)(fetch)

createTimeoutFetch [Server & Browser]

import { createTimeoutFetch } from '@americanexpress/fetch-enhancers';

createTimeoutFetch makes use of the AbortController to abort requests which exceed the given time limit.

Configuring

createTimeoutFetch takes a single argument which sets the default timeout.

const enhancedTimeoutFetch = createTimeoutFetch(6e3)(fetch);

When called, the enhanced fetch will accept an additional option, timeout, allowing for the default timeout value to be overridden for a single request.

const slowRequest = timeoutFetch('https://example.com/some-slow-api', { timeout: 10e3 });

Example

import { createTimeoutFetch } from '@americanexpress/fetch-enhancers';

// set your default timeout
const timeoutFetch = createTimeoutFetch(6e3)(fetch);

// Then use timeoutFetch as you would normally
const request = timeoutFetch('https://example.com');
request.then((response) => response.json())
  .then((data) => {
    console.log(data);
  });

// each request can override the default timeout
const fastRequest = timeoutFetch('https://example.com/fast', { timeout: 1e3 });

createRetryFetch [Server & Browser]

import { createRetryFetch } from '@americanexpress/fetch-enhancers';

Configuring

createRetryFetch accepts the an object with the following configuration: an optional maxRetry (default 3), and an optional back off strategy function:

const enhancedRetryFetch = createRetryFetch()(fetch);

Optional retry count and back off strategy function that accepts the current retry count:

const enhancedRetryFetch = createRetryFetch({
  maxRetry: 5,
  backoffStrategy: (n) => new Promise((res) => setTimeout(res, n * 1000)),
})(fetch);

Example

import { createRetryFetch } from '@americanexpress/fetch-enhancers';

const retryFetch = createRetryFetch()(createTimeoutFetch(5e3)(fetch));

// Then use retryFetch as you would normally
const request = retryFetch('https://example.com');
request.then((response) => response.json())
  .then((data) => {
    console.log(data);
  });

createBrowserLikeFetch [Server only]

import { createBrowserLikeFetch } from '@americanexpress/fetch-enhancers';

createBrowserLikeFetch is for use on the server only. It enables the forwarding of cookies and headers from the request made to the host server to trusted outbound requests made during a server side render. Cookies which are returned are stored for the life of the host servers requests allowing those cookies to be included, when valid, on subsequent requests.

Configuring

createBrowserLikeFetch accepts the following named arguments:

headers

Object containing any headers to be included on fetch requests.

An example of how you could build the headers

const parseHeaders = (req) => ({
  Referer: url.format({
    protocol: req.protocol,
    hostname: req.hostname,
    pathname: req.path,
  }),
  cookie: req.headers.cookie,
});

const headers = parseHeaders(req);
const fetchWithRequestHeaders = createBrowserLikeFetch({
  headers,
  hostname: req.hostname,
  res, // Express response
  trustedURLs: [/^https:\/\/([^./]+\.)*example\.com(\/.*)?$/],
})(mockFetch);

hostname

Hostname which should be derived from the Host HTTP header. Used to determine if set setCookie will be called. If using Express this can be retrieved from the req object.

res

Typically this would be an Express response object. createBrowserLikeFetch makes use of the cookie function to set cookies on the response.

If you wish to provide your own function to set cookies, use setCookie.

res.cookie() function provided by express requires this to be set to the context of the express middleware.

setCookie

This takes precedence over res.cookie provided in the res argument.

setCookie(name, value [, options])

A callback function invoked when a fetch response contains cookies with a domain which matches to the given hostname. This can be used to set the cookie on a response object.

setCookie is called with the same options as though it's the Express response cookie function. If you are passing in your own setCookie function it is important to note that the maxAge option will be in milliseconds.

If desired you can use setCookie to add additional checks or modify options passed to req.cookie.

const buildStringURIEncodingSetCookie = (res) => (name, value, options) => {
  res.cookie(name, value, { ...options, encode: String });
};

const fetchWithRequestHeaders = createBrowserLikeFetch({
  headers,
  hostname: req.hostname,
  setCookie: (name, value, options) => res.cookie(name, value, {
    ...options, encode: String,
  }),
  trustedURLs: [/^https:\/\/([^./]+\.)*example\.com(\/.*)?$/],
})(mockFetch);

trustedURLs

A list of regular expressions used to test the first argument given to fetch when making a request. If the test is successful the enhanced fetch will include provided cookies.

const trustedURLs = [
  /^https:\/\/api\.example\.com(\/.*)?$/,
  /^https:\/\/another\.example\.com(\/.*)?$/,
  // or, more permissively all subdomains, including none
  /^https:\/\/([^./]+\.)*example\.com(\/.*)?$/,
];

As these are regular expressions, be careful to consider values that you also do not want matched (ex: https://example.com.evil.tld/pwned).

trustedDomains

Renamed to trustedURLs. Usage of trustedDomains is deprecated, but values are added to those of trustedURLs until the next breaking version.

Example

const parseHeaders = (req) => ({
  Referer: url.format({
    protocol: req.protocol,
    hostname: req.hostname,
    pathname: req.path,
  }),
  cookie: req.headers.cookie,
  'some-header': req.headers['some-header'] || '1234',
});

const fetchWithRequestHeaders = createBrowserLikeFetch({
  headers: parseHeaders(req),
  hostname: req.hostname,
  res, // Express response
  trustedURLs: [/^https:\/\/([^./]+\.)*example\.com(\/.*)?$/],
})(mockFetch);

fetchWithRequestHeaders('https://example.com', {
  credentials: 'include',
});

Composing fetch enhancers

You can chain together multiple enhancers to build a specific enhanced fetch client

import { createTimeoutFetch } from '@americanexpress/fetch-enhancers';
import { yourFetch } from './safeFetch';

const timeoutFetch = createTimeoutFetch(6e3)(fetch);
const myTimeoutFetch = yourFetch(/* options for configuring yourFetch */)(timeoutFetch);

// use the enhanced fetch as you would normally
const response = myTimeoutFetch('https://example.com');

You can also use Redux's compose function

import { compose } from 'redux';
import { createTimeoutFetch } from '@americanexpress/fetch-enhancers';
import { yourFetch } from './safeFetch';

const enhancedFetch = compose(
  yourFetch(),
  createTimeoutFetch(6e3)
)(fetch);

// Then use the enhanced fetch as you would normally
const request = enhancedFetch('https://example.com');
request.then((response) => response.json())
  .then((data) => {
    console.log(data);
  });

Creating your own fetch enhancer

Each enhancer must return a function which accepts fetch as a single argument.

const strictCookieFetch = ({ allowSameOrigin }) => (nextFetch) => {
  (url, arguments_) => nextFetch(url, {
    ...arguments_,
    // use config arg allowSameOrigin
    credentials: allowSameOrigin ? 'same-origin' : 'omit',
  });
};

const safeFetch = strictCookieFetch()(fetch);

🏆 Contributing

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Please feel free to open pull requests and see CONTRIBUTING.md to learn how to get started contributing.

🗝️ License

Any contributions made under this project will be governed by the Apache License 2.0.

🗣️ Code of Conduct

This project adheres to the American Express Community Guidelines. By participating, you are expected to honor these guidelines.