Use request-promise library

[mwolson]

One of the best practices around promises is to use existing npm libraries that return promises, rather than trying to write custom promisify adapters. Here's an npm module that could be used to replace request with something that returns a promise: https://github.com/request/request-promise

[oliverturner]

Like the sentiment expressed by @mwolson but would suggest https://github.com/matthew-andrews/isomorphic-fetch as an alternative capable of running on client and server.

It's agnostic to your choice of Promise lib, so no conflict with Bluebird, but not prescriptive either in the case that a lighter alternative (potentially a concern for the client lib) becomes preferred.

[mwolson]

I would be very very cautious about introducing a polyfill into a shared library, because that could cause unexpected hard-to-debug problems for users of the library if the WhatWG spec evolves later. This alternative suggested on their page would be slightly better, though it doesn't seem widely used: https://github.com/qubyte/fetch-ponyfill .

In light of this, I'd suggest remaining with request-promise, or trying https://www.npmjs.com/package/superagent-bluebird-promise if there's some (unexpected?) reason that request-promise would not work on both client and server.