Thunder Client is a GUI based Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code, hand-crafted by Ranga Vadhineni with simple and clean design. The source code is not open source. You can report any Bugs Or Feature requests here.
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- Website - www.thunderclient.io
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- Install the Extension, Click Thunder Client icon on the Action Bar.
- From Command Palette (Cm+Sh+P) type
thunder
and selectThunder Client: New Request
- Video: youtube.com/watch?v=NKZ0ahNbmak
- Thunder Client is built with Javascript, Flexbox, Typescript, Ace Editor, Got, Nedb. No javascript or bootstrap frameworks used.
- Send http/https API request using any of the methods GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, HEAD and OPTIONS.
- The Response data supports syntax hightlighting using ACE Editor which can handle large responses easily, you can also view response in Full Screen
- History, Collections and Environment Tabs in the Action Bar View for quick access.
- Authentication: Basic Auth, Bearer Token and OAuth 2.0 are supported.
- Headers: You can send http headers to test api, with auto-complete support.
- Post Body: Send post body as Text, Json, Xml, Form Data and Form-Url-Encoded.
- Graphql: Send Graphql Query & Variables has syntax highlighting support.
- Environment Variables: Syntax highlighting support for environment variables just use
{{variable}}
syntax in most fields - Scriptless Testing: Test APIs with GUI based functionality, no scripting knowledge needed.
- Themes: The extension also supports VS Code themes.
- You can import or export Thunder Client collections data, useful to share with team mates.
- Currently you can import collection or Environment file from Postman also. ( other file formats support soon.. ).
- Submit PR for other file formats on https://github.com/rangav/thunder-imports
- 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.
- I noticed we need to write lot of boilerplate code in Postman and other 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 tests tab is now supported, follow below steps
- Create Env and the required variable name with empty value
- From the tests tab select
Set Env Variable
option and enter the json property - In value input enter the variable name when its matches name in Env, it will turn green
- Now execute the request you will see the variable value set in the Env.
- As the project is not open source, when you submit feature request or bug, if you know the solution, please submit code sample or a sample project in node or .Net, so it will be faster for me to integrate into main project.
- 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.