Stretto 🚀

A robust, high-performance TypeScript fetch wrapper with built-in retry logic, exponential backoff, streaming capabilities, and Server-Sent Events (SSE) support.

• Memory Efficiency: Zero-copy streaming and buffer reuse keep memory usage low.
• Minimal Allocations: Optimized hot paths reduce overhead.
• Buffer Overflow Protection: Configurable limits prevent memory exhaustion attacks.
• Data Security: Internal buffers are zeroed out to avoid leaks in memory dumps.

📦 Installation

# npm
npm install stretto
# Deno
deno add jsr:@wutility/stretto

Or use the CDN:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/stretto/dist/index.umd.min.js"></script>
<!-- window.stretto.default is available -->

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Usage

import stretto from 'stretto';
// jsr
// import stretto, { JSONStreamTransformer } from "jsr:@wutility/stretto";

// Simple GET request
const response = await stretto('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1');
const data = await response.json();

With Options

const response = await stretto('https://api.example.com/data', {
  retries: 5,
  timeout: 10000,
  headers: {'Authorization': 'Bearer token'}
});

Streaming Responses

const response = await stretto('https://stream.wikimedia.org/v2/stream/recentchange', {
  stream: true
});

// Use as AsyncIterable
for await (const chunk of response) {
  console.log('Received chunk:', chunk);
}

Server-Sent Events (SSE)

import stretto, { JSONStreamTransformer } from 'stretto';

const response = await stretto('https://sse.dev/test', {
  stream: true,
  transformers: [new JSONStreamTransformer()]
});

for await (const event of response) {
  console.log('SSE Event:', event);
}

📖 API Reference

stretto(url, options?)

Main function for making HTTP requests.

Parameters:

• url: string | URL - The URL to fetch
• options?: StrettoOptions - Configuration options

Returns: Promise<StrettoStreamableResponse<T>>

StrettoOptions

interface StrettoOptions extends Omit<RequestInit, 'signal'> {
  retries?: number;                    // Default: 3
  timeout?: number;                    // Default: 30000ms
  backoffStrategy?: (attempt: number) => number;
  retryOn?: (error: unknown, response?: Response) => boolean;
  stream?: boolean;                    // Default: false
  transformers?: TransformStream<any, any>[];
  signal?: AbortSignal;
}

JSONStreamTransformer

A specialized transformer for parsing Server-Sent Events with JSON payloads.

import { JSONStreamTransformer } from 'stretto';

const transformer = new JSONStreamTransformer({
  maxBuffer: 8192,        // Maximum line buffer size
  parseData: true,        // Parse JSON automatically
  donePrefix: '[DONE]',   // Custom termination marker
  onBufferOverflow: 'skip', // 'skip' | 'throw'
  onParseError: 'skip'      // 'skip' | 'throw'
});

🔧 Advanced Usage

Custom Retry Strategy

const response = await stretto('https://api.example.com/data', {
  retries: 5,
  retryOn: (error, response) => {
    // Custom retry logic
    if (response?.status === 429) return true; // Rate limited
    if (error instanceof TypeError) return true; // Network error
    return false;
  },
  backoffStrategy: (attempt) => {
    // Custom backoff: linear instead of exponential
    return attempt * 1000;
  }
});

Request Cancellation

const controller = new AbortController();

// Cancel after 5 seconds
setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), 5000);

try {
  const response = await stretto('https://api.example.com/data', {
    signal: controller.signal
  });
} catch (error) {
  if (error.name === 'AbortError') {
    console.log('Request was cancelled');
  }
}

Multiple Transform Streams

import stretto, { JSONStreamTransformer } from 'stretto';

const response = await stretto('https://sse.dev/test', {
  stream: true,
  transformers: [new JSONStreamTransformer()]
});

for await (const chunk of stream) {}

📊 Performance Features

• Zero-copy streaming: No unnecessary data copying during stream processing
• Optimized backoff: Uses bitwise operations for fast exponential calculations
• Memory efficient: Reuses buffers and minimizes allocations
• V8 optimized: Takes advantage of JavaScript engine optimizations

🧪 Testing

npm test

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Contributing Guide for details.

📄 License

MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.