Re: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?]

[Daniel Brooks]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

> I think it's worth looking at the fetch API[1] for inspiration.
> Especially using Javascript-like promises consistently would help.  Many
> people will be familiar with the Javascript API and it's just a lot
> easier to steal a (non-perfect) design than to come up with something
> better.
>
> Helmut
>
> [1] https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#fetch-api

That is a good idea; the fetch API is quite nice. The URL[1] and
URLSearchParams[2] APIs are also really important; they make it
unnecessary to ever parse urls or build urls up through string
concatenation.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams