diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 91b13d4391e..3b21b58d817 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
     "@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest": "^2.17.0",
     "@octokit/rest": "^18.12.0",
     "@remix-run/changelog-github": "^0.0.5",
+    "@remix-run/web-fetch": "^4.4.0-pre.0",
     "@rollup/plugin-babel": "^5.2.2",
     "@rollup/plugin-json": "^5.0.0",
     "@rollup/plugin-node-resolve": "^11.0.1",
diff --git a/packages/create-remix/copy-template.ts b/packages/create-remix/copy-template.ts
index cf10b6b432d..15c5c92e38a 100644
--- a/packages/create-remix/copy-template.ts
+++ b/packages/create-remix/copy-template.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import fs from "node:fs";
 import path from "node:path";
 import stream from "node:stream";
 import { promisify } from "node:util";
-import fetch from "node-fetch";
+import { fetch } from "@remix-run/web-fetch";
 import gunzip from "gunzip-maybe";
 import tar from "tar-fs";
 import { ProxyAgent } from "proxy-agent";
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ export async function copyTemplate(
   /**
    * Valid templates are:
    * - local file or directory on disk
-   * - github owner/repo shorthand
-   * - github owner/repo/directory shorthand
-   * - full github repo URL
+   * - GitHub owner/repo shorthand
+   * - GitHub owner/repo/directory shorthand
+   * - full GitHub repo URL
    * - any tarball URL
    */
 
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ async function copyTemplateFromLocalFilePath(
     return false;
   }
   if (fs.statSync(filePath).isDirectory()) {
-    // If our template is just a directory on disk, return true here and we'll
+    // If our template is just a directory on disk, return true here, and we'll
     // just copy directly from there instead of "extracting" to a temp
     // directory first
     return true;
@@ -224,10 +224,10 @@ async function downloadAndExtractTarball(
     headers.Authorization = `token ${token}`;
   }
   if (isGithubReleaseAssetUrl(tarballUrl)) {
-    // We can download the asset via the github api, but first we need to look
+    // We can download the asset via the GitHub api, but first we need to look
     // up the asset id
     let info = getGithubReleaseAssetInfo(tarballUrl);
-    headers.Accept = "application/vnd.github.v3+json";
+    headers.Accept = "application/vnd.GitHub.v3+json";
 
     let releaseUrl =
       info.tag === "latest"
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ async function downloadAndExtractTarball(
     );
   }
 
-  // file paths returned from github are always unix style
+  // file paths returned from GitHub are always unix style
   if (filePath) {
     filePath = filePath.split(path.sep).join(path.posix.sep);
   }
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ function getGithubReleaseAssetInfo(browserUrl: string): ReleaseAssetInfo {
   let [, owner, name, , downloadOrLatest, tag, asset] = url.pathname.split("/");
 
   if (downloadOrLatest === "latest" && tag === "download") {
-    // handle the Github URL quirk for latest releases
+    // handle the GitHub URL quirk for latest releases
     tag = "latest";
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/create-remix/package.json b/packages/create-remix/package.json
index ed0c3af7293..38448132309 100644
--- a/packages/create-remix/package.json
+++ b/packages/create-remix/package.json
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@
     "create-remix": "dist/cli.js"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "@remix-run/web-fetch": "^4.4.0-pre.0",
     "arg": "^5.0.1",
     "chalk": "^4.1.2",
     "execa": "5.1.1",
     "gunzip-maybe": "^1.4.2",
     "log-update": "^5.0.1",
-    "node-fetch": "^2.6.9",
     "proxy-agent": "^6.3.0",
     "recursive-readdir": "^2.2.3",
     "rimraf": "^4.1.2",
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/gunzip-maybe": "^1.4.0",
-    "@types/node-fetch": "^2.5.7",
     "@types/recursive-readdir": "^2.2.1",
     "@types/tar-fs": "^2.0.1",
     "esbuild": "0.17.6",
diff --git a/packages/remix-dev/package.json b/packages/remix-dev/package.json
index 76ba763a832..b89933943ad 100644
--- a/packages/remix-dev/package.json
+++ b/packages/remix-dev/package.json
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
     "lodash": "^4.17.21",
     "lodash.debounce": "^4.0.8",
     "minimatch": "^9.0.0",
-    "node-fetch": "^2.6.9",
     "ora": "^5.4.1",
     "picocolors": "^1.0.0",
     "picomatch": "^2.3.1",
@@ -74,7 +73,6 @@
     "@types/jsesc": "^3.0.1",
     "@types/lodash.debounce": "^4.0.6",
     "@types/node": "^18.17.1",
-    "@types/node-fetch": "^2.5.7",
     "@types/npmcli__package-json": "^4.0.0",
     "@types/picomatch": "^2.3.0",
     "@types/shelljs": "^0.8.11",
diff --git a/scripts/deployment-test/_shared.mjs b/scripts/deployment-test/_shared.mjs
index 15b047f6b4f..eb6055f1740 100644
--- a/scripts/deployment-test/_shared.mjs
+++ b/scripts/deployment-test/_shared.mjs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import crypto from "node:crypto";
 import { sync as spawnSync } from "cross-spawn";
 import PackageJson from "@npmcli/package-json";
 import jsonfile from "jsonfile";
-import fetch from "node-fetch";
+import { fetch } from "@remix-run/web-fetch";
 import retry from "fetch-retry";
 
 let fetchRetry = retry(fetch);
diff --git a/scripts/deployment-test/cf-pages.mjs b/scripts/deployment-test/cf-pages.mjs
index b96e3f87f0a..97661b1c836 100644
--- a/scripts/deployment-test/cf-pages.mjs
+++ b/scripts/deployment-test/cf-pages.mjs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import path from "node:path";
 import { sync as spawnSync } from "cross-spawn";
 import fse from "fs-extra";
-import fetch from "node-fetch";
+import { fetch } from "@remix-run/web-fetch";
 import PackageJson from "@npmcli/package-json";
 
 import {
diff --git a/scripts/deployment-test/cf-workers.mjs b/scripts/deployment-test/cf-workers.mjs
index c1a7ca6d92c..9e6e73d1603 100644
--- a/scripts/deployment-test/cf-workers.mjs
+++ b/scripts/deployment-test/cf-workers.mjs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import path from "node:path";
 import { sync as spawnSync } from "cross-spawn";
 import fse from "fs-extra";
 import toml from "@iarna/toml";
-import fetch from "node-fetch";
+import { fetch } from "@remix-run/web-fetch";
 import PackageJson from "@npmcli/package-json";
 
 import {
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index dd443b56125..3dd3bb86363 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2669,14 +2669,6 @@
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/ms/-/ms-0.7.31.tgz"
   integrity sha512-iiUgKzV9AuaEkZqkOLDIvlQiL6ltuZd9tGcW3gwpnX8JbuiuhFlEGmmFXEXkN50Cvq7Os88IY2v0dkDqXYWVgA==
 
-"@types/node-fetch@^2.5.7":
-  version "2.5.12"
-  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/node-fetch/-/node-fetch-2.5.12.tgz"
-  integrity sha512-MKgC4dlq4kKNa/mYrwpKfzQMB5X3ee5U6fSprkKpToBqBmX4nFZL9cW5jl6sWn+xpRJ7ypWh2yyqqr8UUCstSw==
-  dependencies:
-    "@types/node" "*"
-    form-data "^3.0.0"
-
 "@types/node@*", "@types/node@^18.17.1":
   version "18.17.1"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/node/-/node-18.17.1.tgz#84c32903bf3a09f7878c391d31ff08f6fe7d8335"
@@ -9038,7 +9030,7 @@ nice-try@^1.0.4:
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/nice-try/-/nice-try-1.0.5.tgz"
   integrity sha512-1nh45deeb5olNY7eX82BkPO7SSxR5SSYJiPTrTdFUVYwAl8CKMA5N9PjTYkHiRjisVcxcQ1HXdLhx2qxxJzLNQ==
 
-node-fetch@^2.5.0, node-fetch@^2.6.7, node-fetch@^2.6.9:
+node-fetch@^2.5.0, node-fetch@^2.6.7:
   version "2.6.9"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/node-fetch/-/node-fetch-2.6.9.tgz#7c7f744b5cc6eb5fd404e0c7a9fec630a55657e6"
   integrity sha512-DJm/CJkZkRjKKj4Zi4BsKVZh3ValV5IR5s7LVZnW+6YMh0W1BfNA8XSs6DLMGYlId5F3KnA70uu2qepcR08Qqg==