Thanks Emre!

For the rpc requests I played with http from node and also dsteem and steemjs before settling on request and request-promise native. There's no overwhelming technological reason but as it's the first project I've done with node.js and steem I wanted to understand the basics and try building things from scratch.

That said, I do like the transparency of request - it's pretty clear what each call is doing and where it's pointing. But I'm sure I'd get comfortable with the others if I used them more often.