HTTP2 performance and multiple concurrency about pnpm

[rstacruz]

That'd be interesting. We're currently using got, but not by much, so it might be easy to switch to http2 with possible http fallback.

If there's a package that already handles this, lemme know (I don't know of any!). PR's are also welcome.

[gunta]

Unfortunately there is no package that wraps this.

I've created an Issue for GOT here:
sindresorhus/got#167

Otherwise, we would have to use is-http2 along with node-http2.
https://github.com/stefanjudis/is-http2

Or create a new package.

[gunta]

Ok seems that its gonna be easier to fix on the GOT side.

However we might add here the spdy module as a dependency in pnpm to have HTTP2 support enabled by default.

[zkochan]

@gunta we now use the same package that npm uses to make http requests (https://github.com/npm/npm-registry-client). Do you think this issue is still relevant?

[gunta]

@zkochan Still relevant. They use request which doesn't support http2 neither.

Since it doesn't looks too difficult, we could hack something like this in the meantime: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37653110/is-there-a-request-like-package-using-http2

[zkochan]

I see. We can try to make a pull request to npm-registry-client. If they won't accept it, we can fork it and use the fork.

[DanielRuf]

Is this still relevant? Node 10 (and probably earlier releases) supports http2 internally (at least "experimental").

https://nodejs.org/api/http2.html#http2_http_2

[aparajita]

@zkochan Do you still want to consider this? Since node-fetch doesn't seem to support http2, it would mean switching to something like fetch-h2.

[zkochan]

sure, would be nice to see if we get a performance boost with that library.