[rjmunro]

Most of axios' functionality has effectively been promoted to a language feature as `fetch`, but the problem is people don't bother to migrate. I've migrated our direct usage of it but it's still pulled in transitively in several parts of our codebase.

Even left-pad is still getting 1.6 million weekly downloads.

[embedding-shape]

Annoyingly, the times I reach for axios and similar is when I need to keep track of upload progress, which I could only do with XMLHttpRequest, not fetch, unless I've missed some recent browser changes, and the API of XMLHttpRequest remains as poor as the first times I had to use it. Download progress been supported by fetch since you can track chunks yourself, but somehow they didn't think to do that for requests for some reason, only responses.