SuperAgent with Vow.js
SuperAgent is a small progressive client-side HTTP request library, and Node.js module with the same API, sporting many high-level HTTP client features. View the docs.
Installation
node:
$ npm install superagent
component:
$ component install visionmedia/superagent
Works with browserify and should work with webpack
request ;
Supported browsers
Tested browsers:
- Latest Android
- Latest Firefox
- Latest Chrome
- IE9 through latest
- Latest iPhone
- Latest Safari
Even though IE9 is supported, a polyfill window.btoa
is needed to use basic auth.
Plugins
Superagent is easily extended via plugins.
var nocache = ;var request = ;var prefix = '/static'; request // Prefixes *only* this request // Prevents caching of *only* this request;
Existing plugins:
- superagent-no-cache - prevents caching by including Cache-Control header
- superagent-prefix - prefixes absolute URLs (useful in test environment)
- superagent-mock - simulate HTTP calls by returning data fixtures based on the requested URL
- superagent-mocker — simulate REST API
Please prefix your plugin with superagent-*
so that it can easily be found by others.
For superagent extensions such as couchdb and oauth visit the wiki.
Running node tests
Install dependencies:
$ npm install
Run em!
$ make test
Running browser tests
Install dependencies:
$ npm install
Start the test runner:
$ make test-browser-local
Visit http://localhost:4000/__zuul
in your browser.
Edit tests and refresh your browser. You do not have to restart the test runner.
License
MIT