Leaving node-fetch response without reading stream

Question

Having the following code in a service (lets say on an express endpoint):

async function (res, req, next) {
  const fetch = require('node-fetch');

  await fetch('http://example.com/resource', { method: 'DELETE' });

  res.status(204).send();
}

What happens with the stream and connection opened by node-fetch ? Is it closed at some point? Or is it left open forever?

Is it better to do (await fetch(...args)).text() to consume the stream or its totally the same?

Answer 1

The connection is closed by itself, the stream is just the response.

You should read the stream to validate if you didn't have any errors on your delete