Undici – an HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js

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From the library's author:

> Why is it twice as fast? Or why can't the native library not be twice as fast?

> It’s implemented from scratch. The old client cannot be due to inefficient design of the internals, as well as years of maintaining legacy APIs!

Source: https://twitter.com/matteocollina/status/1361364063620628480

(not a critique)

Why rewrite what is already available? What’s the main improvement you’re looking for?

unlike others, It is written in NodeJS, which is an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.

The main advantage is instead of a single binary, you have millions of files in the node_modules directory which is useful if you want to inspect the code.

Node has a http client built in. This one seems faster, but also does not support all the features.

It seems to be a faster replacement of `http`.

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