Can anyone recommend a library with the same API as request?
For those of us that would be under hardship to rewrite the node-request portions of large stable services, but also can't/shouldn't to have deprecated libraries?
For those of us that would be under hardship to rewrite the node-request portions of large stable services, but also can't/shouldn't to have deprecated libraries?
If you take a look at [1], the maintainers of request aren't "deprecating" it in the sense that they won't touch it ever again. It really just means that there won't be any more active development on it, no new features or breaking changes will be accepted, and some housekeeping had to be done to allow it to accept security fixes without relying on one specific person to be around.
The code will still work (and probably for quite a while), and security issues will still be addressed, it just won't be changing much if at all from now on.
The main theme behind the depreciation of Request is that the API is old and doesn't really fit with the rest of the node ecosystem. Any other API-compatible library is going to have those same issues. So if you are going to start something new, but want to keep an identical interface, then you might as well just use Request.