@wave-client/vscode

The Wave Client VS Code extension — a completely offline, local‑first API client that requires no login and features built‑in AI tools, running the shared Wave Client UI natively inside VS Code.

Wave Client is a privacy‑respecting, lightweight client for developers, QA engineers, and IT professionals who want a no‑nonsense environment to test and manage APIs:

• 100% local‑first & offline — your data stays entirely on your machine. No mandatory cloud sync, no tracking telemetry.
• Zero sign‑in nonsense — start testing right away without creating yet another SaaS account.
• Seamless VS Code integration — manage environments, global variables, and request collections natively within your workspace.

Purpose

This package delivers Wave Client as a native VS Code extension, so you can build and send API requests right next to your code. It reuses the platform‑agnostic UI from @wave-client/core and bridges it to VS Code through a platform adapter.

What you can do

• Requests beyond HTTP — HTTP, WebSocket, and SSE, with rich body editors and a "Sent" view of the exact outgoing request.
• Organize — nested collections with import (Postman, OpenAPI/Swagger, HTTP) and export.
• Parameterize — environments, {{variables}}, and dynamic _fn_ functions.
• Authenticate — API Key, Basic, Digest, OAuth2 (Refresh, Client Credentials, Authorization Code/PKCE), and HMAC, plus a reusable Wave Store for cookies, auth, proxies, and certificates.
• Validate — response checks via JSONPath and JSON Schema.
• Automate — flows, test suites, and exportable run reports.
• AI built in — Wave Arena and an MCP server for external AI tools.

Documentation

See the full documentation at docs/ — start with the VS Code platform guide. To understand the overall architecture, see Design & Architecture.

Feedback & Community

Wave Client is in public beta and your input directly shapes what gets built next.

Found a bug? Open a bug report — the more detail you include (environment, steps to reproduce, a HAR file if relevant), the faster it gets fixed.

Have an idea? Open a feature request — new platform clients (CLI, desktop, …) are explicitly welcome, not just improvements to the existing ones.

Browse existing issues before opening a new one — upvoting an existing issue is the best signal that something matters.