Localman 🚀

Localman is a high-performance, lightweight API development platform built with Rust, Tauri, and React. It orients around speed, security, and a premium developer experience, providing a full suite of tools for designing, testing, and debugging HTTP and WebSocket connections.

💾 Download

Latest Version: v0.1.0-alpha

Download the latest .msi installer or standalone .exe from our Releases Page.

✨ Key Features

📡 Advanced Networking

• Multi-protocol Support: Native support for HTTP/HTTPS and real-time WebSockets.
• Complex Body Types: Handle raw (JSON, XML, Text), form-data (multipart), and binary file uploads with ease.
• WebSocket Workspace: Dedicated interface for real-time message logging, connection management, and binary/text frames.
• Persistent History: Automatically indexed request history with local timezone support and recovery.

📜 Professional Scripting Engine

• Pre-request & Test Scripts: Automate workflows using a sandboxed JavaScript environment.
• Environment Management: Effortlessly switch between local, staging, and production environments.
• Global Variables: Share data across your entire workspace.
• Assertions: Powerful pm.* API for automated status, header, and body validation.
• Dynamic Variables: Built-in support for {{$guid}}, {{$timestamp}}, and {{$randomInt}}.

🏃 Collection Runner & CLI

• Batch Execution: Run entire collections or folders sequentially with customizable iterations and delays.
• Real-time Monitoring: Track progress, pass/fail rates, and average response times.
• CLI Runner: A dedicated high-performance Rust CLI (cli_runner) for executing collections directly from the terminal.

🎨 Modern UX/UI

• Optimized for Productivity: Sleek, glassmorphic Dark Mode designed to reduce eye strain.
• Visual Previews: Pretty-printing for JSON/HTML and a sandboxed preview for images and web content.
• Tab System: Advanced tab management that remembers scroll positions, response data, and view settings per request.
• Search & Filter: Instant pattern matching within response bodies and collection hierarchies.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Core: Rust (Networking & Security) + Tauri (Desktop Bridge)
• Frontend: React, TypeScript, Vite
• Styling: Vanilla CSS & TailwindCSS
• Data: SQLite (bundled via rusqlite)

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust (2021 edition)
• Node.js (v18+)
• pnpm

Installation & Development

1. Clone & Install:

   git clone https://github.com/Grafynut/localman.git
   cd localman
   pnpm install

2. Run Desktop App:

   pnpm tauri dev

3. Run CLI Runner:

   cd src-tauri
   cargo run --bin cli_runner -- --help

4. Build Production Apps:

   pnpm tauri build

📚 Scripting API

Localman exposes the pm object in scripts:

// Example Test Script
pm.test("Status is 200", () => {
    pm.expect(pm.response.code).to.equal(200);
});

pm.environment.set("token", pm.response.json().access_token);

🤝 Contributing & Author

Author: Subhajit

We welcome contributions! Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md. Licensed under the MIT License.