Why node-fetch? Node-fetch is a popular HTTP client library, with around twenty million downloads per week; according to NPM, it is also one of the most downloaded NPM packages of all-time. Node-fetch's primary motivation was to implement a server-side API similar to window.fetch, a client-side one; since it is implemented in the browser. This API is primarily used to make asynchronous requests to load content on the browser side. However, on the server-side of things, there are many more use...