Frontend HTTP client

REPOSITORY DEPRECATION NOTICE: this library has been moved to https://github.com/lokalise/shared-ts-libs/tree/main/packages/app/frontend-http-client, please use that repository going forward.

Opinionated HTTP client for the frontend.

Note that it is a ESM-only package.

Basic usage

import wretch from 'wretch'
import { z } from 'zod'

const client = wretch('http://localhost:8000')

const queryParamsSchema = z.object({
	param1: z.string(),
	param2: z.number(),
})

const requestBodySchema = z.object({
	requestCode: z.number(),
})

const responseBodySchema = z.object({
	success: z.boolean(),
})

const responseBody = await sendPost(client, {
	path: '/',
	body: { requestCode: 100 },
	queryParams: { param1: 'test', param2: 123 },
	queryParamsSchema,
	requestBodySchema,
	responseBodySchema,
})

No content response handling (HTTP 204)

SDK methods has a parameter (isEmptyResponseExpected) to specify if 204 response should be treated as an error or not. By default it is treated as valid except on sendGet method where it is treated as an error. Usage example:

const response = await sendGet(client, {
	path: '/',
	isEmptyResponseExpected: true,
})

if 204 responses are expected, the library will return null, if not, it will throw an error.

Non-JSON response handling

SDK methods has a parameter (isNonJSONResponseExpected) to specify if non json responses should be treated as an error or not. By default it is treated as valid except on sendGet method where it is treated as an error. Usage example:

const response = await sendGet(client, {
	path: '/',
	isNonJSONResponseExpected: true,
})

if non-JSON responses are expected, the library will return null, if not, it will throw an error.

API contract-based requests

frontend-http-client supports using API contracts, created with @lokalise/universal-ts-utils/api-contracts/apiContracts in order to make fully type-safe HTTP requests.

Usage example:

import { somePostRouteDefinition, someGetRouteDefinition } from 'some-service-api-contracts'
import { sendByPayloadRoute } from '@lokalise/frontend-http-client'
import wretch from 'wretch'

const client = wretch(BASE_URL)

const responseBody1 = await sendByPayloadRoute(client, somePostRouteDefinition, {
    pathParams: {
        userId: 1,
    },
    body: {
        isActive: true,
    },
})

const responseBody2 = await sendByGetRoute(client, someGetRouteDefinition, {
    pathParams: {
        userId: 1,
    },
    queryParams: {
        id: 'testId',
    },
})

Credits

This library is brought to you by a joint effort of Lokalise engineers:

• Ondrej Sevcik
• Szymon Chudy
• Nivedita Bhat
• Arthur Suermondt
• Lauris Mikāls
• Igor Savin