[novaleaf]

I don't think that's a good idea.

The problem is that most of replacements are of lower quality than request.

I just moved to request from axios about a week ago. Axios has multi-year persistent bugs around proxy support, modifying https agents, and unhandled promise exceptions. Probably due to low contributions (the code base is quite complex). You only find these out after investing into axios heavily.

To new users axios looks superficially as good as request (similar number of users, promises by design, etc)