this would be highly appreciated

I don't think this is the right way to do this. It already works well in Browserify...

As this is a polyfill it's the one case where you probably would expect that it add itself to global scope.

This is working for me:-

require('fetch');

window.fetch('http://my-lovely-api.com/something.json')
  .then(function(res) { return res.json(); })
  .then(function(res) {
    console.log(res.data);
  });

[Note I'm using debowerify and installing this module via bower]

well, i agree then.

Well, that makes sense.