Thunder Client
Thunder Client is a lightweight Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code, hand-crafted by Ranga Vadhineni with a focus on simplicity, clean design and local storage. The source code is not open source. You can report any Bugs Or Feature requests here.
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- Website - www.thunderclient.com
- Extension - VS Code Marketplace
- Documentation - https://docs.thunderclient.com
Story behind Thunder Client
- Read Launch Blog Post on Medium
Milestones
- The extension was launched on March 31st, 2021
- 500K downloads on Dec 20th, 2021
- 1 Million downloads on July 13th, 2022
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Innovations
- First to introduce GUI based API Client for VS Code.
- First to introduce 100% local storage API Client.
- First to introduce Scriptless Testing.
- First to introduce an advanced CLI that runs Requests, Collections and cURL commands.
- More to come...
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How to Use
- Install the extension, click the Thunder Client icon on the Action Bar.
- From the sidebar click
New Requestbutton to test API - Video: youtube.com/watch?v=NKZ0ahNbmak
Main Features
- Lightweight and easy to use REST API Client.
- Supports Collections and Environment variables.
- Scriptless Testing: Easily test API responses with a GUI-based interface.
- Local Storage: The extension saves all data locally on the user's device.
- Git Sync: Save requests data in your Git repository for team collaboration.
- Advanced CLI: Run requests, collections and cURL commands from the terminal.
Documentation (NEW)
- We're excited to launch our new documentation site - https://docs.thunderclient.com