Discussion: Refactor/Rewrite/Replace some parts of this library

[kamikazechaser]

This library has some deprecated libraries e.g. request. Node.js has also progressed since when the core of this library was written; It has support for native promises/Async await e.t.c.

Some of the proposals are:

1. Replace the bloated and deprecated request library with a more light weight alternative. The current proposals include: ethanent/phin, node-fetch/node-fetch, matthew-andrews/isomorphic-fetch, sindresorhus/got .The replacement library should support most of what request supported.

2. Potentially replace Event Emitter 3 with a better drop in replacement like mcollina/mqemitter or native Event Emitter. This needs more research.

3. Replace bluebird with native promises/async-await.

4. Support Node.js v12+ as per LTS schedule. Any feature/polyfill supporting < v12 should be removed.

5. Replace pump with pipeline.

Feel free to make your own proposals.

[danielperez9430]

6. Move the samples/tutorials to a secondary repository
7. Possibility of making an interactive documentation using documentationjs

[jmaister]

Would transition to TypeScript be considered too?

I could help with that.

[varsubham]

Hey I would like to work on replacing the request library with node-fetch/node-fetch library

But the problem is what about the options.request parameter ? It is compatible with the old request library
https://github.com/request/request#requestoptions-callback

[gengjiawen]

1. Replace the bloated and deprecated request library with a more light weight alternative. The current proposals include: ethanent/phin, node-fetch/node-fetch, matthew-andrews/isomorphic-fetch, sindresorhus/got .The replacement library should support most of what request supported.

node-gyp goes with https://github.com/npm/make-fetch-happen

[wojpawlik]

I suggest https://github.com/telegraf/client. It's typed, and should be close to supporting https://grammy.dev/advanced/transformers.html.

[kamikazechaser]

Agree with @wojpawlik, high time this library used a lite client like telegraf/client while keeping the API consistent with the current version so that there is no barrier to entry for existing devs.

Maybe even use middleware composition instead of event emitters.

[wojpawlik]

@telegraf/client was archived and is now being upstreamed into telegraf: telegraf/telegraf#1705. I suggest you to just copy and adjust it to your needs.

Related to #1007.

[wojpawlik]

https://github.com/telegraf/telegraf/blob/v5/src/input.ts

[Doc999tor]

Do you have any news about migrating this amazing package to more lightwight?

• I have very humble needs just to send a message to a channel - maybe there are simpler and lighter alternatives? I didn't find anything well-documented and maintained like node-telegram-bot-api
• For now the package size is ~ 600k and startup time ~300ms on my local machine (fast and modern)