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Asked: 2026-05-22T19:58:08+00:00

I’m about to create a JavaScript-based client for a RESTful webservice. The client should

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I’m about to create a JavaScript-based client for a RESTful webservice. The client should facilitate access to the webservice and wrap some raw HTTP calls into more “candy” functions and objects.

I’m intending to use this client library for node.js-based applications as well as for PhoneGap. So, I don’t have to care about the Same-origin-policy. However, dispatching HTTP requests is totally differnt in PhoneGap and node.js.

Now I’m wondering how I can implement a client library in JavaScript, that is portable between different “platforms” (node.js, PhoneGap, perhaps later even browers)?

Thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    You might try this emulation of XmlHttpRequest under nodejs but you still may need to special-case your client library to operate under PhoneGap (and other browser-based JavaScript platorms) and nodejs.

    One way to do this would be to check the contents of ‘window’ which is undefined by default under nodejs, or ‘global’ which is (should be) undefined in a browser.

    EDIT

    It appears I spoke(wrote) too soon. Check out abstract-http-request which while not explicitly supporting PhoneGap, might give you enough to work with.

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