Requeste-RS

Requesters is a request testing application inspired by insomnia and postman built with Tauri and NextJS.

Development

These are the steps necessary to develop on this application

Setup

To run the application you first need to install all dependencies: For the frontend, run yarn in the root directory of the application to install all nextjs dependencies. For the backend, run cargo build in the src-tauri/ directory of the application.

For tauri you will also need to install the tauri CLI by running cargo install tauri-cli, please refer to the tauri-website for information regarding other system dependencies that are required to run tauri.

Running development

To run & watch the files, run cargo tauri dev in the root directory of the project. Please note that changes to the frontend (src/ directory) should hot-reload in the application window. However, any changes to the backend (src-tauri/ directory) will lead to the application restarting.

Features / TODO

A list of features and their status in the project. Statuses:

• ❌ Not started
• 🏗️ Partially implemented
• 🍑 Implemented in backend
• 🍏 Implemented in frontend
• ✅ Done!

Sending requests

• ✅ HTTP Methods:
  • ✅ GET
  • ✅ POST
  • ✅ PUT
  • ✅ DELETE
  • ✅ OPTION
  • ✅ HEAD
• 🏗️ Headers
  • ✅ User can specify custom headers
  • ❌ Default headers, should be used iff the user haven't specified anything for that header.
    • ❌ User-agent
    • ❌ Accept
    • ❌ Content-Type
    • ❌ Content-Length
• 🏗️ Request Body
  • 🍏 JSON
  • ❌ XML
  • ❌ Multi-part-form
  • ❌ Plain
• ❌ Websockets
• ❌ GraphQL
• ❌ Handle redirects

Viewing sent requests

• 🏗️ Trace of request
  • ✅ See sent/received headers
  • ❌ See sent/received body
  • ❌ See certificate handling
  • ❌ See multiple requests/responses
  • ❌ Color code requests/responses
  • ❌ See "trace" specific detailed information
• ✅ Raw response body
  • ✅ See stringified body
• ✅ Headers
  • ✅ See response headers
• 🏗️ Preview
  • 🏗️ HTML response
    • ✅ Basic html view in iframe
    • ❌ Support images
    • ❌ load css?

Store requests

• 🏗️ Sidepanel with requests listings
  • ✅ List of template http requests that can be reused
  • ❌ Store the current request to the list (and store to file)
• ❌ Load from file
• ❌ Multiple "projects"
• ❌ Store data between requests, e.g. making one request, switching to another and then switching back should still show the previous response for that request.