Feature detect streaming and fall back to regular request/response reading if not available

[pcowgill]

Feature detect streaming and fall back to regular request/response reading if not available.

This would involve using a helper lib with the response that handles the case where res.body is undefined and instead parses the JSON from a vanilla, non-streaming response and transforms it to an iterable in another way rather than through toIterable, which assumes a ReadableStream from the fetch spec as an input.

React Native is one such environment where res.body is undefined.

In the long run, hopefully React Native will implement a spec-compatible fetch natively rather than using a polyfill on top of XHR, but in the meantime it would be nice not to gate potential users of this lib.

Related discussion here JakeChampion/fetch#746 (comment) cc @MattiasBuelens

[SgtPooki]

js-ipfs is being deprecated in favor of Helia. You can learn more about this deprecation and read the migration guide.

Please feel to reopen with any comments by 2023-06-02. We will do a final pass on reopened issues afterwards (see #4336).

I believe this issue should be resolved in Helia.