Source: node-fetch Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Section: javascript Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , node-babel-preset-env (>= 7) , node-is-builtin-module , node-rollup-plugin-babel (>= 5.2~) , rollup Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-fetch Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-fetch.git Homepage: https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-fetch Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} Provides: node-node-fetch 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.