Is the development alive?

[EchedelleLR]

As I didn't see any update in much time I wanted to be sure.

[KaKi87]

You can check @mdsol's fork at mdsol/rest-client, although issues are disabled :/

[subwiz]

@EchedeyLR are you looking for any specific feature? We've not got any tickets for any bugs in the existing codebase.

[KaKi87]

How about support for JSON request and response body with indentation and syntax coloration, a more beautiful UI and a dark theme ? Thanks xD

[EchedelleLR]

There are some months since I opened the report and I don't remember so much but I was looking for a reliable alternative to Postman to use in classroom. I found https://github.com/Kong/insomnia as one but I didn't like to use Electron and being too heavy. It also integrated extra services for their thingies I didn't need.

One of the most used features was what @KaKi87 named about JSON request and response body as our REST API used it a lot. The reason why I used Insomnia.

[EchedelleLR]

In the other part, we didn't use them too much but I feel some authentication method could be added. I should check Insomnia again to be sure. I am not doing so much web development this course so this is why I need to check first ^^;

[KaKi87]

Just like you, I was looking for a non-Electron alternative, and I actually found one : FRequest. Also open source and multiplatform, it supports JSON and has a dark theme.

[EchedelleLR]

I have also used and tested a few times https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.gitlab.kendellfab.restscope but development is a bit slow and has some faulty functionalities.

I other side, both FRequest and Rest Scope are maintained and are hosted by just a person without any group support in any sense. https://github.com/mdsol/rest-client wiztools/rest-client fork seems to be better in that sense but without a place to report issues in conditions and given they didn't even write most part of the utility so wiztools/rest-client seems the one which maintains the requirements at all.

This is a bit offtopic though, I think that asking for the faulty functionalities here would be more than enough. Later I will try to make a comparison to see what was faulty at all in wiztools/rest-client that I needed or could need.

[KaKi87]

I have also used and tested a few times https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.gitlab.kendellfab.restscope

Linux-only, however.

This is a bit offtopic though

Agreed, let's wait for the dev's answer, see if implementing these features is possible.

[subwiz]

@KaKi87 JSON indentation and syntax coloring is already supported. This is the screenshot of the options dialog to configure it:

Please open ticket for Dark theme.

[KaKi87]

JSON indentation and syntax coloring is already supported.

I see, how about :

• having these 3 checkboxes enabled by default
• being able to set indentation at 4 spaces
• using a monospace font

Regarding syntax highlight, well...

This is pink mode	This is syntax highlight

Please open ticket for Dark theme.

Okay, can I put :

• making the light theme beautiful
• creating a dark theme
• making the dark theme beautiful

In the same issue ? 😅

[KaKi87]

up

[EchedelleLR]

I would ask for adding a curl view of the request and possibility to render html output.