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Axios vs ky vs ofetch 2026: Which HTTP Client Should You Use in JavaScript?
A practical 2026 comparison of the three HTTP clients worth reaching for in a modern JavaScript or TypeScript app — Axios (the battle-tested incumbent with interceptors, a huge ecosystem, and works everywhere), ky (Sindre Sorhus's tiny zero-dependency Fetch wrapper with hooks, automatic retries, and schema validation in ky 2.0), and ofetch (the unjs universal fetch used by Nuxt and Nitro, with an axios-like API that runs identically in the browser, Node, and edge runtimes). Bundle size, retries, interceptors vs hooks, TypeScript, edge and runtime support, supply-chain surface, and which one to build your next app or template on.
