Decide which SSR Data Fetching Library to use

List of Libraries that has been discussed till date:

• isomorphic-fetch
• isomorphic-unfetch
• axios
• cross-fetch
• node-fetch
• whatwg-fetch

Last two libraries, if used, should be used together, as they are not isomorphic in nature.

@Zeko369 suggested, respective to PR https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter/pull/140, we are already using isomorphic-fetch

@Sonicrida suggested axios is not maintained for a while and has some security vulnerabilities. @Shub1427 concluded that isomorphic-fetch, isomorphic-unfetch and axios hasn’t been maintained for a long period, though recently from September axios has a new core developer helping to resolve issues as fast as he could.

Regarding security vulnerability for axios, it was a false alarm as per this.

@nik-john suggested to use cross-fetch which seems a viable option, as it’s being actively maintained, and is a wrapper around node-fetch and whatwg-fetch (which I was trying to do by myself in PR https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter/pull/166).

This discussion needs to be concluded, as the PR https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter/pull/166 is been on hold for a long time now due to this and acts as a blocker to the same.

[nik-john]

Ok closing this as cross-fetch seems to be the consensus

@Shub1427 Hopefully this unblocks you

[nik-john]

@bernhard-hofmann It’s pretty straight forward - because we’re going to use this library extensively on Chapter (in no particular order):

• It needs to be a robust library with no glaring open issues
• It needs to perform all functions of an HTTP library
• It has to be actively maintained
• It needs to work seamlessly on the server as well as the client
• It should have a hassle-free integration with NextJS