alt Hacker News> nearly every other project uses it for some reason instead of fetch (I never understood why).
Fetch wasn't added to Node.js as a core package until version 18, and wasn't considered stable until version 21. Axios has been around much longer and was made part of popular frameworks and tutorials, which helps continue to propagate it's usage.
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nedt • today at 2:21 PM
Before that we had node-fetch. If you already use a dependency why not one that's pretty much what will come natively to every JS runtime soon.
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Also it has interceptors, which allow you to build easily reusable pieces of code - loggers, oauth, retriers, execution time trackers etc.
These are so much better than the interface fetch offers you, unfortunately.