Axios tops 109K stars, ships v1.14.0

Axios is plumbing, not glamour, but that is exactly why it still matters: it smooths over the rough edges between browser requests and Node HTTP with a consistent developer-facing API.

• –One library covers the common request workflows teams actually need, including timeouts, retries via interceptors, multipart forms, and upload/download progress
• –The latest release cadence looks evolutionary rather than disruptive, which is what you want from a dependency embedded across SDKs, CLIs, and app backends
• –Its ubiquity makes it a supply-chain choke point, so version pinning and dependency audits matter more than they do for most utility packages
• –Native `fetch` keeps improving, but Axios still wins where teams want a richer abstraction and fewer environment-specific edge cases