[x] Package has sufficient overlap in functionality to act as a replacement.
[x] Package is actively maintained, and/or stable for use.
[x] Package has at least 1000 weekly downloads on NPM or is relatively popular on GitHub.
[x] This package is a better alternative to what is already suggested for this category (please explain why), or the category is new.
The package is nearly 4x smaller. It's very similar to axios but based on the much more modern fetch instead of XMLHttpRequest. Fetch is now natively supported in Node 18+
Package name ky
Alternative to axios
Quality check
The package is nearly 4x smaller. It's very similar to axios but based on the much more modern fetch instead of XMLHttpRequest. Fetch is now natively supported in Node 18+