[nedt]

Before that we had node-fetch. If you already use a dependency why not one that's pretty much what will come natively to every JS runtime soon.

[zarzavat]

The fetch API is designed for browsers. It's not designed for servers. Fetch may work for a particular use case on the server, it may not. Servers have needs over and above what a browser allows the client to do.

[nedt]

Now I'm curious, because we have a big server side code base using fetch(). What are you using that doesn't work with fetch? Especially since axios nowadays has a fetch adapter.