From 25e3cab94a787d29aec6ab885507d307202ad31e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Melnikow Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 09:51:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add link to fetch-ponyfill --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 270a3e3..fca9e15 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ Fetch for node and Browserify. Built on top of [GitHub's WHATWG Fetch polyfill] - This adds `fetch` as a global so that its API is consistent between client and server. - You must bring your own ES6 Promise compatible polyfill, I suggest [es6-promise](https://github.com/jakearchibald/es6-promise). +For [ease-of-maintenance and backward-compatibility reasons][why polyfill], this library will always be a polyfill. As a "safe" alternative, which does not modify the global, consider [fetch-ponyfill][]. + +[why polyfill]: https://github.com/matthew-andrews/isomorphic-fetch/issues/31#issuecomment-149668361 +[fetch-ponyfill]: https://github.com/qubyte/fetch-ponyfill + ## Installation ### NPM