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Comparison between http, https, request, node-fetch, axios and got libraries in terms of development and runtime performance

HTTP Request Libraries Benchmarks

The code is benchmarking some of the most popular http request approaches and libraries.

It compares the native http, https functions and request, node-fetch, axios and got libraries.

Here are the results

[axios] http [GET] x 7,221 ops/sec ±5.81% (72 runs sampled)
[axios] http [POST] x 7,535 ops/sec ±3.05% (74 runs sampled)
[axios] https [GET] x 7,516 ops/sec ±3.05% (72 runs sampled)
[axios] https [POST] x 7,775 ops/sec ±2.11% (77 runs sampled)

[got] http [GET] x 3,269 ops/sec ±3.73% (70 runs sampled)
[got] http [POST] x 3,480 ops/sec ±2.01% (77 runs sampled)
[got] https [GET] x 3,561 ops/sec ±2.15% (75 runs sampled)
[got] https [POST] x 3,641 ops/sec ±1.96% (76 runs sampled)

[core] http [GET] x 12,941 ops/sec ±2.32% (76 runs sampled)
[core] http [POST] x 12,803 ops/sec ±2.33% (75 runs sampled)
[core] https [GET] x 12,905 ops/sec ±2.50% (74 runs sampled)
[core] https [POST] x 12,578 ops/sec ±2.39% (75 runs sampled)

[core-promisified] http [GET] x 11,576 ops/sec ±2.33% (71 runs sampled)
[core-promisified] http [POST] x 11,600 ops/sec ±1.99% (73 runs sampled)
[core-promisified] https [GET] x 11,542 ops/sec ±1.95% (73 runs sampled)
[core-promisified] https [POST] x 11,344 ops/sec ±2.22% (72 runs sampled)

[fetch] http [GET] x 7,059 ops/sec ±3.93% (72 runs sampled)
[fetch] http [POST] x 6,998 ops/sec ±2.15% (74 runs sampled)
[fetch] https [GET] x 7,108 ops/sec ±2.35% (72 runs sampled)
[fetch] https [POST] x 6,784 ops/sec ±2.29% (73 runs sampled)

[request] http [GET] x 8,905 ops/sec ±2.81% (73 runs sampled)
[request] http [POST] x 8,785 ops/sec ±3.56% (72 runs sampled)
[request] https [GET] x 8,914 ops/sec ±2.47% (76 runs sampled)
[request] https [POST] x 8,882 ops/sec ±1.98% (74 runs sampled)

Fastest is [core] http [GET]