nbb.core/slurp doens't accept urls, right?

currently not, but the idea was to use fetch whenever it becomes available in node. can take a while

holy shit the node http api is bad, need a different api call for https, wtf?

and I need to chunk together the string?

@mkvlr use https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-fetch

then once it becomes part of Node (which it already is behind a flag) you can remove the dep

Historically the Node APIs are event based but in recent years things have become more and more promise-based