diff --git a/packages/gatsby/package.json b/packages/gatsby/package.json
index 22cf9023cc699..36cb9ee28615c 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby/package.json
+++ b/packages/gatsby/package.json
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
     "gatsby-react-router-scroll": "^2.0.7",
     "gatsby-telemetry": "^1.0.7",
     "glob": "^7.1.1",
+    "got": "8.0.0",
     "graphql": "^14.1.1",
     "graphql-compose": "6.0.3",
     "graphql-playground-middleware-express": "^1.7.10",
@@ -108,7 +109,6 @@
     "react-error-overlay": "^3.0.0",
     "react-hot-loader": "^4.6.2",
     "redux": "^4.0.0",
-    "request": "^2.85.0",
     "semver": "^5.6.0",
     "shallow-compare": "^1.2.2",
     "sift": "^5.1.0",
diff --git a/packages/gatsby/src/commands/develop.js b/packages/gatsby/src/commands/develop.js
index 8e9d08c91a5b4..052d3d0513452 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby/src/commands/develop.js
+++ b/packages/gatsby/src/commands/develop.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ const graphqlHTTP = require(`express-graphql`)
 const graphqlPlayground = require(`graphql-playground-middleware-express`)
   .default
 const { formatError } = require(`graphql`)
-const request = require(`request`)
+const got = require(`got`)
 const rl = require(`readline`)
 const webpack = require(`webpack`)
 const webpackConfig = require(`../utils/webpack.config`)
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ async function startServer(program) {
       const proxiedUrl = url + req.originalUrl
       req
         .pipe(
-          request(proxiedUrl).on(`error`, err => {
+          got.stream(proxiedUrl).on(`error`, err => {
             const message = `Error when trying to proxy request "${
               req.originalUrl
             }" to "${proxiedUrl}"`
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index ef5208b938766..5d939fc210db6 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -10187,6 +10187,30 @@ googleapis@^29.0.0:
     url-template "^2.0.8"
     uuid "^3.2.1"
 
+got@8.0.0:
+  version "8.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/got/-/got-8.0.0.tgz#57a11f841edc58e3f3eba4b3ac220faf5133770f"
+  integrity sha512-lqVA9ORcSGfJPHfMXh1RW451aYMP1NyXivpGqGggnfDqNz3QVfMl7MkuEz+dr70gK2X8dhLiS5YzHhCV3/3yOQ==
+  dependencies:
+    cacheable-request "^2.1.1"
+    decompress-response "^3.3.0"
+    duplexer3 "^0.1.4"
+    get-stream "^3.0.0"
+    into-stream "^3.1.0"
+    is-plain-obj "^1.1.0"
+    is-retry-allowed "^1.1.0"
+    is-stream "^1.1.0"
+    isurl "^1.0.0-alpha5"
+    lowercase-keys "^1.0.0"
+    mimic-response "^1.0.0"
+    p-cancelable "^0.3.0"
+    p-timeout "^1.2.0"
+    pify "^3.0.0"
+    safe-buffer "^5.1.1"
+    timed-out "^4.0.1"
+    url-parse-lax "^3.0.0"
+    url-to-options "^1.0.1"
+
 got@^6.7.1:
   version "6.7.1"
   resolved "http://registry.npmjs.org/got/-/got-6.7.1.tgz#240cd05785a9a18e561dc1b44b41c763ef1e8db0"
@@ -15728,7 +15752,7 @@ p-some@^2.0.0:
   dependencies:
     aggregate-error "^1.0.0"
 
-p-timeout@^1.0.0, p-timeout@^1.1.1:
+p-timeout@^1.0.0, p-timeout@^1.1.1, p-timeout@^1.2.0:
   version "1.2.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/p-timeout/-/p-timeout-1.2.1.tgz#5eb3b353b7fce99f101a1038880bb054ebbea386"
   integrity sha1-XrOzU7f86Z8QGhA4iAuwVOu+o4Y=