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Working with origins

Accessing data from origins is done via the standard Fetch API available in Fastly Compute. Read more on developer.fastly.com.

Performance​

💡 The most efficient way of proxying data from your origin to the client is to ensure you do not consume the body in your code.

Below, a fetch() request is made to an origin and the entire Response object passed through to res.send(). Doing this avoids reading the content of the response which saves processing time and memory.

router.get("/origin", async (req, res) => {
  res.send(await fetch(
    "https://example.com", { backend: "my-origin" }
  ));
});

req and res​

req and res are compatible with anything that expects a Request or Response. It's therefore possible to pass req directly to fetch(), for example:

router.get("/origin", async (req, res) => {
  res.send(await fetch(
    req, { backend: "my-origin" }
  ));
});

Reading a response​

If you need to read the body of a response, you can do so like this:

router.get("/api", async (req, res) => {
  let originRequest = await fetch(
    "https://example.com", { backend: "my-origin" }
  );

  let body = await originRequest.text();

  res.send(`Body had a length of ${body.length}`);
});