feature suggestion: Use axios instead of fetch api

[mr-karan]

Axios is a really popular library for making HTTP requests in browser and node env. It has quite a few features which are superior to the fetch api, that is being used currently. We could have some of the niceties like

• Custom Timeouts
• Cancel request on demand
• Better error handling
• Typescript support

If you think this a valid suggestion, I'm willing to refactor http.js and other places necessary to make changes. Else feel free to close this 👍

[rmehta]

Let's not do this and minimize dependencies