For updated documentation please visit our github page
Tech
Thunder Client is built with Javascript, Flexbox, Typescript, Ace Editor, Got.
Main Features
Lightweight Rest API Client for VS Code.
Simple & Easy to use UI
Supports Collections and Environment variables & Graphql Queries.
Scriptless Testing: Test API response easily with GUI based interface .
Themes: The extension also supports VS Code themes.
Local Storage All the requests data is saved locally on your device.
Git Sync
Subscription Required to use this feature
This feature allows you to store requests data in git project, for details visit github page.
Import/Export
You can import from Postman, Insomnia, OpenAPI and Curl, for more details visit github page.
Run Collection
You can test multiple requests using Collection, select Run All option from the collection menu.
The collection runner will execute all requests and test cases and display the result.
Proxy
Proxy is supported using vscode proxy setting. for details visit github page.
Scriptless Testing
We need to write lot of boilerplate code in Postman and other api clients to do basic testing using scripting like status code equal 200. So I implemented GUI based tests, where you select couple of dropdowns to do most standard tests very easily without any scripting knowledge.
Set Environment Variable from response, Headers, Cookie in Tests tab is now supported, see our github page for details.
Privacy
Basic anonymised telemetry data of extension usage is collected using vscode-extension-telemetry, No Personal or request data is collected. You can opt out using VS Code Settings details here
There is no backend or cloud sync currently, all the data is stored locally on your computer.
