--- title: "That's so fetch" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 423 published_at: "2022-02-03" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/423" --- Plus Node LTS updates, and using streams for more efficient code. | #​423 — February 3, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/423) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/lvqsdsrcgzfperdutlen.jpg)](https://fusebit.io/blog/node-fetch/) [The Fetch API Comes to Node Core (and Why You Should Care)](https://fusebit.io/blog/node-fetch/) — Support for the [Fetch API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API) (as commonly used browser-side for fetching resources) has [been merged](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41749) into Node.js and will be available behind a `‑‑experimental‑fetch` flag until, hopefully, being enabled by default in Node 18 and beyond. 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