Allow returning Response from a beforeRequest hook

index.js

@@ -383,7 +383,11 @@ class Ky {
 	async _fetch() {
 		for (const hook of this._hooks.beforeRequest) {
 			// eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
-			await hook(this._input, this._options);
+			const result = await hook(this._input, this._options);
+
+			if (result instanceof Response) {
+				return result;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (this._timeout === false) {

readme.md

@@ -226,6 +226,10 @@ Default: `[]`
 
 This hook enables you to modify the request right before it is sent. Ky will make no further changes to the request after this. The hook function receives normalized input and options as arguments. You could, for example, modify `options.headers` here.
 
+A [Response](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response) instance can be returned from a `beforeRequest` hook to completely avoid making an HTTP request. This is very helpful when mocking a request or using an internal cache.
+
+**Note:** all the following hooks will be skipped.
+
 Note that the argument order has changed in non-backward compatible way since [#163](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky/pull/163).
 
 ###### hooks.afterResponse

test/hooks.js

@@ -291,3 +291,15 @@ test.failing('`afterResponse` hook is called with input, normalized options, and
 
 	await server.close();
 });
+
+test('hooks beforeRequest returning Response skips HTTP Request', async t => {
+	const expectedResponse = 'empty hook';
+
+	const response = await ky.get('server.url', {hooks: {
+		beforeRequest: [
+			() => new Response(expectedResponse, {status: 200, statusText: 'OK'})
+		]
+	}}).text();
+
+	t.is(response, expectedResponse);
+});