Making Fetch Happen

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Fetch lands in Node.js core available in Node.js v18 after years of polyfills (node-fetch, cross-fetch) and experiments behind --experimental-fetch; the implementation uses the next‑generation HTTP client Undici implementation and shows dramatic speed improvements on basic HTTP/1.1 workloads. Streams, AbortController and URL standards are integrated to match browser behavior, many contributors iterate on edge cases, and the result runs without extra packages while preserving familiar fetch semantics across server and browser environments.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:22Making Fetch Happen
3. 0:58Where Did It all Start
4. 2:17Service Workers
5. 6:34What Does this Mean for Javascript
6. 7:04What Does this Mean for Fetch
7. 8:33Simplicity

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