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Add Support for Observable (as opposed to Promise)

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Feature Description Axios is currently promise based library. It would be great that if it also support observable. Two great benefits of using observables:

leveraging rxjs operator
cancel http request through unsubscribe (as opposed to cancel token)

Existing Solutions I have implemented a library axios-observable(https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios-observable). It’s basically a thin wrapper around axios with almost the same API as axios. It also enables cancelling http request through unsubscribe - a more straightforward way than using cancel token.

Proposals I am thinking if we can incorporate axios-observable into axios to make observable officially supported. If you guys are very positive about this idea, I will be very happy to make an PR.

Happy to discuss.

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

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yasufcommented, Oct 25, 2019

Interesting idea and concept. To be completely honest, I don’t see axios implementing observables in the short run at least, your library seems pretty cool and I think the best way for us to move forward is with separate libraries to keep each one small and let developers decide which pattern to follow.

Open to other ideas, these are just my first impressions, I’ll let others share their opinions as well

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jasonsaaymancommented, May 28, 2020

HI,

Thanks for submitting this I don’t think that this is something that Axios will implement any time soon.

Thanks

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