Dependency injection of fetch implementation on node about gretchen HOT 3 OPEN

@cspotcode hello! Thanks for the question, and sorry for the delay.

At the moment, no, but polyfills should Just Work, if that's an option. Do you have a specific need to avoid polyfills right now? I'm curious to know, because it wouldn't be too hard to add this capability to the library if it could be a common use case.

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Not a specific need; just a general desire to avoid modifying the global environment to avoid possible incompatibilities with other libraries.

If I require any modifications to the global environment, this means that any libraries I publish will also impose this global mutation on their consumers. It's possible that consumers will use another library that breaks when it encounters this global mutation. I don't have any specific examples, so it's possible that this is extremely rare. But when writing libraries, I try not to make that assumption, since I don't know who will be using the library.

I can send a PR to implement this, if you want.

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Hello again @cspotcode 👋 heck of a year it's been lol, sorry I never got back to you on this.

I hear you on the globals. Since you posted this, gretchen was refactored into a state that might make this easier. However, it still relies on other globals like Request.

If you've got ideas on how we could implement this we'd love a PR!

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