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A text-based HTTP client in the browser. An interface-less Postman.
https://github.com/sharat87/prestige

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A text-based HTTP client in the browser. An interface-less Postman.

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# Prestige



**A text-based HTTP client, by [Shri](https://sharats.me). Available at [prestige.dev](https://prestige.dev).**



> Under all the abstractions, it's just stardust interacting with text.



This is a *powerful*, *text-based*, *in-browser*, HTTP client app geared towards web developers and API testing

professionals.



Check out the [User Guide](https://prestige.dev/docs) to learn how Prestige can be a powerful addition to your toolset.



[Discussion on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27412445). Join us

on [Discord](https://discord.gg/6tc9fMmYRW).



![Prestige light mode screenshot](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige/raw/master/docs/content/img/screenshot-light.png#gh-light-mode-only)

![Prestige dark model screenshot](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige/raw/master/docs/content/img/screenshot-dark.png#gh-dark-mode-only)



If you face any problems or have a suggestion, please [reach out on Discord](https://discord.gg/6tc9fMmYRW),

or [create an issue](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige/issues/new).



## Features



- Define requests in plain text, hit `Ctrl+Enter` (or `Cmd+Enter`) to execute and view results.

- Write plain, familiar Javascript for templating within your requests.

- Shows all responses in a redirect chain, if request redirects.

- Save your Prestige documents to Gist.

- Export requests as cURL commands. Please [open an issue](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige/issues/new) if you'd

  like to see more export formats.

- Isolated cookie management.

- Uploading files to APIs is as simple as drag-dropping the file and calling a function.

- Light and dark modes, for multiple themes.



## Developing



Please ensure you have NodeJS (with yarn) and Go, of versions as specified in

the [`.tool-versions`](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige/blob/master/.tool-versions) file, before trying the

following commands. I recommend using `asdf-vm` for this, which integrates with the `.tool-versions` file. So, if you

have `asdf` already setup, you can just do `asdf install` in this repo, and you'll have the correct versions of NodeJS

and Go.



The project contains a `manage.sh` script that makes development a little easier.



1. `./manage.sh serve-frontend` — Start frontend Parcel server. This supports full auto-reload.

2. `./manage.sh serve-backend` — Start backend server. This _doesn't_ auto-reload when code changes.

3. `./manage.sh serve-docs` — Start docs server. This supports auto-reload only for content pages.

4. `./manage.sh test-*` — Test frontend/backend/ui (depending on what's in place of `*`).

5. `./manage.sh build-*` — Build frontend/backend/docs (depending on what's in place of `*`).



Run the serve commands in parallel, then open .



## Inspirations



- HTTP Client for Sublime Text: [Requester](https://github.com/kylebebak/Requester).

- HTTP Client for VS Code: [vscode-restclient](https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient).

- REST Client for IntelliJ based

  IDEs: [JetBrains HTTP Client](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-code-editor.html).

- My own Vim extension towards a very similar concept: [roast.vim](https://github.com/sharat87/roast.vim).



More: .



## Some public APIs to play with



1. [httpbun.com](https://httpbun.com) — Great for meta-testing and JSON/form-data related experiments. Another

   project by [@sharat87](https://sharats.me).

2. [A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development](https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis).

3. Yahoo Finance stock prices API — Great for large text responses and CSV data.

4. GitHub GraphQL API — Great for experimenting with GraphQL, but requires a personal auth token.

5. [A Curated List of 100 Cool and Fun Public APIs to Inspire Your Next Project](https://medium.com/better-programming/a-curated-list-of-100-cool-and-fun-public-apis-to-inspire-your-next-project-7600ce3e9b3)

6. [Postman's collection](https://www.postman.com/cs-demo/workspace/public-rest-apis/collection/8854915-454a2dc7-dcbe-41cf-9bfa-da544fcd93a2)



## Rough Roadmap



- Close gaps in documentation, finish API Reference and link all mentions of API functions to this page.

- A desktop app with NeutralinoJS or some other such technology.

- A browser extension that, when installed, would make it so that we don't need the proxy anymore.

- A Dockerfile for quickly running a self-hosted instance of Prestige with Docker.

- Ability to open/edit documents from GitHub repos, Google Drive and Dropbox.

- Rich editor features like auto-complete, JSON editing help, hotkeys to start new GET/POST/etc. request, snippets etc.



## Contributing



Contributions (code, tests, docs) are welcome, but if it's even slightly non-trivial or more than a few lines of

changes, I'd appreciate it if you [opened an issue](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige/issues/new) to discuss before

working towards a PR. Among other things, this can help avoid overlaps where we're both working on the same thing, and

we realize it only after you open a PR.



## License



[Apache-2.0](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige/blob/master/LICENSE). Project includes a

[NOTICE](https://github.com/sharat87/prestige/blob/master/NOTICE) file.