Fetch has also lacked support for features that xhr has had for over a decade now. For example upload progress. It's slowly catching up though, upload progress is the only thing I'd choose xhr for.
replyYou can pipe through a TransformStream that counts how many bytes you've uploaded, right?
replyThat is a way to approximate it, though I'd be curious to know the semantics compared to xhr - would they both show the same value at the same network lifecycle of a given byte?
replySome might say the tradeoff of writing a small wrapper is worth it given what’s been demonstrated here.
replyYeah but what about other deps like db drivers?
replyIn my experience people feel the need to wrap axios too.
replyThese are the kind of people I hope AI replaces
replyAI was trained on Axios wrappers, so it's just going to be wrappers all the way down. Look inside any company "API Client" and it's just a branded wrapper around Axios.
replySpeak for yourself, Claude works fine with fetch on my system.
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