Changelog - 2026-09-16

A fetch-only network layer

Breaking Change Enhancement

In one line. ARDOR no longer ships an axios transport, and the socket client now lives on its own import path, so import '@venizia/ardor' needs no HTTP client and no optional dependency installed.

What changed

• The axios transport is removed. AxiosNetworkRequest, AxiosFetcher, IAxiosRequestOptions and IAxiosNetworkOptions no longer exist, and axios is not a peer dependency of any ARDOR package. DefaultNetworkRequestService already used fetch; now that is the only transport.
• The socket client moved to a sub-path. SocketIOClientHelper and ISocketIOClientOptions are imported from @venizia/ardor/socket-io (or @venizia/ardor-kernel/socket-io) instead of the package root.
• Importing the framework installs nothing extra. Both changes exist for the same reason: the root barrel used to pull axios and socket.io-client eagerly, so an application had to install two packages declared optional before it could import ARDOR at all.

Who is affected

• Applications that use the default data provider or network service. No action needed - they were already on fetch.
• Applications that imported SocketIOClientHelper from the package root. Change the import path; the class itself is unchanged.
• Applications that used AxiosNetworkRequest or AxiosFetcher. Build the transport on fetch, or keep an axios helper in your own codebase.

Breaking changes

WARNING

Two public classes moved or disappeared. Both are transport-layer helpers; neither is used by the default data provider, auth provider or i18n provider.

Before:

import { AxiosNetworkRequest, SocketIOClientHelper } from '@venizia/ardor';

// ...
const request = new AxiosNetworkRequest({ name: 'legacy', networkOptions: { baseUrl } });
const socket = new SocketIOClientHelper({ host, options });

After:

import { NodeFetchNetworkRequest } from '@venizia/ardor';
import { SocketIOClientHelper } from '@venizia/ardor/socket-io';

const request = new NodeFetchNetworkRequest({
  name: 'reporting',
  networkOptions: { baseUrl: 'https://api.example.com' },
});

const socket = new SocketIOClientHelper({
  identifier: 'reporting',
  host: 'https://api.example.com',
  options: { path: '/socket.io', extraHeaders: {} },
});

socket.io-client stays an optional peer, and is now genuinely optional: install it only if you import the ./socket-io sub-path.

Details

• TFetcherVariant is now 'node-fetch' alone. BaseNetworkRequest<T> stays generic over it, so a consumer can still add a transport without forking the base.
• The browser-purity gate proves the result rather than asserting it: the kernel root entry bundles with no external dependency at all, while kernel/socket-io declares socket.io-client and is measured separately.

File	Package
src/helpers/networks/fetchers/axios.ts (deleted)	kernel
src/helpers/networks/common/types.ts	kernel
src/helpers/networks/base-request.ts	kernel
package.json exports and peers	kernel, ardor