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It's a popular questions in this discord, because there really are a lot of http clients out there these days... but I prefer anything built on finch, which is in turn build on mint, the pure elixir http client. My favorite lately has been req: https://github.com/wojtekmach/req.
personally I would avoid anything built on hackney (which is what httpoison is built on). I've personally been hit with strange bugs and behavior from it and I've heard others have problems with it sometimes too.
I think that's why the community has slowly been moving away from it, or at least trying to
this is a fantastic example of what you can accomplish with Mix.Insstall + req in 75 lines https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/.github/workflows/notify.exs