Replacing deprecated request dependency

[fidgi]

Suggestion

Replacing the deprecated request package by a modern equivalent like axios or superagent.

More alternatives mentionned here

Use Cases

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Examples

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Acceptance criteria

TBD - will be filled by the team.

[shubhamp-sf]

Already being discussed here: #147

[samarpanB]

In order to introduce a new library in place of request, it will need a full rewrite of the codebase. Also, there are a few alternatives available like axios, got or fetch (natively available since nodejs v21). I think we need to see what could be our best and future proof alternative. I would propose to move to native fetch module since that's going to be native to nodejs in coming future. Thoughts @raymondfeng @dhmlau @achrinza ?