Source: node-fetch Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) , dh-buildinfo , nodejs Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Homepage: https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-javascript/node-fetch.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/node-fetch.git Package: node-fetch Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs , node-encoding (>= 0.1.11) , node-is-stream (>= 1.0.1) Description: light-weight module that brings window.fetch to node.js Instead of implementing XMLHttpRequest in Node.js to run browser-specific Fetch polyfill, why not go from native http to Fetch API directly? Hence node-fetch, minimal code for a window.fetch compatible API on Node.js runtime. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.