I'm developing a script in Node.js that needs to send multiple http requests. I'm really familiar with the way Angular's $http service works. I like the use of promises and overall syntax, I know its advantages and disadvantages etc.
Can I in any way use Angular $http service in a Node.js app? I hope this doesn't sound too silly.
For promises like the ones in angular you can use q. Actually angular uses a subset of q.
At the risk of self-promotion, I wrote an NPM module that provides promisified HTTP methods.
$http returns an error on non-2xx response codes, this will return success. Unfortunately, this isn't highlighted in the documentation.There's an NPM project for running AngularJS in node on the server located here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/angularjs-server
That being said, you might want to take a look at Bluebird or just use ES6 promises in Node. Since Angular is a client-side framework it has a lot of things you don't need on the server.
node has built in support for simple http requests from the http module - however if you would like something a bit simpler and easier to manage I would reccoment the Restify client API
var restify = require('restify');
// Creates a JSON client
var client = restify.createJsonClient({
url: 'https://us-east-1.api.joyent.com'
});
client.basicAuth('$login', '$password');
client.get('/my/machines', function(err, req, res, obj) {
assert.ifError(err);
console.log(JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2));
});
