Source: node-fetch Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , chai,mocha,node-busboy,node-chai-as-promised,node-coveralls,node-form-data,node-p-timeout,node-streamsearch , node-data-uri-to-buffer (>= 6) , node-rollup-plugin-commonjs , node-rollup-plugin-inject , node-rollup-plugin-node-resolve , node-rollup-plugin-replace , node-rollup-plugin-terser , node-rollup-plugin-typescript , node-tslib , node-typescript , rollup , terser Standards-Version: 4.7.0 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 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-fetch Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , node-data-uri-to-buffer (>= 5) Provides: ${nodejs:Provides} Multi-Arch: foreign 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.