⭐️⭐️ Ensure your HTTP requests always reach their destination as efficiently as possible! ⭐️⭐️
Tested on Mac, Linux, Windows with NodeJS 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25
[![npm][npm-image]][npm-url] [![ci][ci-image]][ci-url] [![javascript style guide][standard-image]][standard-url] [standard-image]: https://img.shields.io/badge/code_style-standard-brightgreen.svg [standard-url]: https://standardjs.com [npm-image]: https://img.shields.io/npm/v/rock-req.svg [npm-url]: https://npmjs.org/package/rock-req [ci-url]: https://github.com/carboneio/rock-req/actions [ci-image]: https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/carboneio/rock-req/ci.yml?branch=master ## 🔥 Why? In most existing libraries (2025): - Managing **reliable retries** is difficult, tricky with streams and not battle-tested - Using **multiple forward proxies** has several benefits like **higher availability** and **increased bandwidth** but **Intercepting retries** to use another Egress controller between two requests is not possible. - Many request libraries are heavy: node-fetch, superagent, needle, got, axios, request - Lightweight alternatives are not as light as they claim due to dependencies (simple-get, tiny-req, puny-req, phin, ...) ⚡️ **Rock-req** solves these problems with only **150 lines of code** and **zero dependencies** It also supports many features: - Follows redirects - Handles **gzip/deflate/brotli** responses - Modify defaults - Extend and create new instances - Automatically destroy input/output **stream** on error and premature close event - **Advanced retries** - URL Rewrite - **Ultra-fast (> 20k req/s)** - Keep Alive by default (3000ms) - Composable - Timeouts - Promises interface - HTTPS / HTTP - Composes well with npm packages for features like cookies, proxies, form data, & OAuth - Keep 98% of the `simple-get` API (fork source) When the callback is called, the request is 100% finished, even with streams. ## 🚀 Benchmark Rock-req vs got, axios, node-fetch, phin, simple-get, superagent, ... Stop using "slow-by-default" and "false-light" HTTP request libraries! **2025-11-14 on MacBook Pro M4 Max with all dependencies updated on this date** | Library | NodeJS 22 | NodeJS 24 | NodeJS 25 | Bun v1.3.2 | LOC (2025/2023) | |--------------|-----------:|------------:|---------:|-----------:|----------------:| | rock-req 🙋♂️ | 26842 ops | 26782 ops | 26179 ops | 21229 ops | 152 (+5%) | | simple-get | 26532 ops | 26802 ops | 25954 ops | 21187 ops | 317 (+0%) | | axios | 4110 ops | 3999 ops | 3996 ops | 14788 ops | 19883 (+42%) | | got | 14786 ops | 15234 ops | 15149 ops | 15287 ops | 16904 (+83%) | | fetch | 15676 ops | 16252 ops | 15784 ops | 27675 ops | 54211 (+306%) | | request | 17102 ops | 14586 ops | 14346 ops | 18202 ops | 58057 (+24%) | | superagent | 3862 ops | 3979 ops | 3889 ops | 19271 ops | 31913 (+98%) | | phin | 15549 ops | 14160 ops | 13915 ops | 15430 ops | 20064 (+5960%) | | _undici_* | 32480 ops | 33272 ops | 32738 ops | 25961 ops | 23235 (+43%) | **2023-04-19 on Macbook Pro M1 Max with all dependencies updated on this date** | Library | NodeJS 16 | NodeJS 18 | NodeJS 20* | Size deps inc. | | ------------ |--------------:|--------------:| --------------:| --------------:| | rock-req 🙋♂️ | 22816 ops | 21797 ops | 21964 ops | 144 LOC | | simple-get | 2937 ops | 3260 ops | 21258 ops | 317 LOC | | axios | 5090 ops | 4910 ops | 3196 ops | 13983 LOC | | got | 2163 ops | 1762 ops | 9961 ops | 9227 LOC | | fetch | 2101 ops | 2102 ops | 2020 ops | 13334 LOC | | request | 2249 ops | 1869 ops | 15815 ops | 46572 LOC | | superagent | 2776 ops | 2100 ops | 2895 ops | 16109 LOC | | phin | 3178 ops | 1164 ops | 21299 ops | 331 LOC | | _undici_* | 24095 ops | 24378 ops | 24191 ops | 16225 LOC | > `LOC` = Lines of Code, including dependencies (excluding dev dependencies) > `ops` = request per second > Since Node.js 20, HTTP keep-alive is activated by default, just like in `rock-req`. This improves the overall performance of all frameworks. > `undici` is a low-level API and a faster alternative to the native Node.js HTTP module. It represents the performance ceiling for Node.js. > `rock-req` uses only the native Node.js HTTP module and provides many high-level features — far more than `phin` and `simple-get` — with fewer lines of code. > Interestingly, the differences are less visible on Bun.sh. ## Install ```bash npm install rock-req ``` ## Documentation [The full documentation is here](doc/api.md) to reduce Node package file size. ## Supporters This packaged in maintained by Carbone:
