ky

Ky wraps Fetch in a tiny, elegant API that handles all of it. Same author as Got, but built on Fetch so it works in browsers, Deno, Bun, and Node 18+.

MIT licensed. It's intentionally small, about 5KB. You get retries on failure, timeout support, hooks (beforeRequest, afterResponse), and JSON shortcuts. `ky.get(url).json` instead of `const res = await fetch(url); if (!res.ok) throw.; return res.json`.

Fully free. npm package, no service, no paid tier.

The catch: Ky is minimal by design. If you need advanced features like request cancellation with progress tracking, HTTP/2, or streaming uploads, Got or Axios have more batteries included. And since Ky is built on Fetch, it inherits Fetch's limitations: no built-in cookie jar, no proxy support in Node without extra config. For pure API calls where you want a thin wrapper over Fetch, Ky is perfect. For complex HTTP needs, it might not be enough.