bbc/flashheart

# flashheart

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> A fully-featured Node.js REST client built for ease-of-use and resilience

`flashheart` is built on [http-transport](https://github.com/bbc/http-transport) to provide everything you need to build HTTP-based services with confidence.

## Installation

```
npm install --save flashheart
```

## Usage

```js
const flashheart = require('flashheart');

const client = flashheart.createClient({
  name: 'my_service',
  logger: console
});

const response = await client.get('http://echo.jsontest.com/key/value/');
console.log(response.body);
// {key: "value"}
```

## Documentation
For more examples and API details, see [API documentation](https://bbc.github.io/flashheart)

## Test

```
npm test
```

To generate a test coverage report:

```
npm run coverage
```