Hi all, I’m working on a Phoenix project where I need to make external HTTP requests and I’m trying to choose between Req and HTTPoison . Req looks modern and composable, which is appealing. But, HTTPoison has been around for a long time and seems to be a battle-tested choice. I also noticed that H…

You might want to read this deep-dive on the topic: [image] A Breakdown of HTTP Clients in Elixir This is an overview of the HTTP clients we have available in Elixir, as well as when to use each one. I also noticed that HTTPoison has only one dependency whi…

Tesla is pretty underrated IMO, and it no longer “relies a bit too much on module-based configuration and meta-programming”, citied as downsides in that article.

I’m curious why HTTPoison isn’t mentioned in this topic. Based on the download numbers on Hex, I assumed it was one of the most commonly used libraries. Am I missing something? EDIT: Never mind, I missed the part where it mentions HTTPoison.

I would go with Req for new projects at this point. It has a wonderful API and buy-in from the right people, so we know it will be used and maintained. The only downside is it’s still not a stable release, but it’s been pretty stable for the last year or so now so I don’t expect any substantial brea…

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itzmidinesh June 6, 2025, 2:19pm 4

Thank you for the article. I will go through it.