UI

[jgroom33]

Create a UI

strest-ui /tests loads all requests into visualization (use similar layout to insomnia UI) Allow stepping through requests and displaying results Requests can be modified and saved back to disk Values of variables are displayed along side the 'code': i.e. Env(FOO)bar

[eykrehbein]

Also had this idea... I'm currently working on version 2.0.0 which will split strest into two separate parts:

• the strest-api, which is basically a node library with all the functions behind strest and with no interface or output
• the strest-cli, which is just a cli interface which will call the strest-api functions

When 2.0 is out, it will be a lot easier to create a UI App, because the App will just call functions from the strest-api like the cli does.

[jgroom33]

Another implementation option is to write a plug-in for vscode. This might be better aligned with the focus on committing the tests to version control. What do you think of that option?

[jgroom33]

https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient/blob/master/README.md

[eykrehbein]

Also a nice approach

[jgroom33]

I think standardizing the request format is useful.

http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/har-12-spec/#request

This way it would be easy to fork and update the vscode project. Then the vscode project could use the API you're developing.

[jgroom33]

this is compatible with 2.0:

https://github.com/jgroom33/vscode-strest-client

It has syntax highlighting and individual execution of calls. Each response is appended to the history.json file

[jgroom33]

added a video to show the flow: https://github.com/jgroom33/vscode-strest-client

[eykrehbein]

awesome!