Fixing #385 - Keep defaults local to instance

Adding better 'responseType' and 'method' type definitions by using a string literal union type of possible values (#1148)

This change broke the saucelabs tests for IE9.  Instead of updating all the things at once, I'm going to do one PR per dependency, making sure I don't break stuff along the way :) This reverts commit 152b0635.

chore: upgrade eslint and add fix command

chore: ignore package-lock.json

fix: update a bunch of dependencies

The alternative way I added is more common and requested, as seen from issues
#362 , #350. Should be helpful for the beginners ( I was personally stuck for a bit too )

Adds option to specify character set in responses (with http adapter)

Decorate resolve and reject to clear timeout in all cases

[Typescript] Fix missing type parameters on delete/head methods

Fixing #537 Rejecting promise if request is cancelled by the browser