I did this:

  const response = await fetch(
    url,
    {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      },
      body: JSON.stringify(reqData),
    }
  );
  const resData: ApiResponse = await response.json();

Yeah makes sense. Now that fetch is standardized and built in to node, frankly I don't see any reason to ever pull in request.