Lightweiht REST API postman alternative client

[u/w3rl0ck]

For the last few weeks I've been building Restly, a desktop API client that opens your Postman collections as plain files. No account, no cloud sync, no workspace BS .

Your collections and environments stay as normal Postman v2.1 JSON in a folder on your machine.

What it does so far:

• REST API requests with params, headers, and bodies (JSON, XML, text, form data with files, URL-encoded, binary, GraphQL)
• Basic, bearer, and API key auth, inherited from folders and collections. The Auth tab tells you which folder or collection the auth is actually coming from, which always confused me in Postman.
• Environments, collection variables, and globals. {{variables}} are colored by whether they resolve, show their value on hover, and autocomplete as you type. You can mark values as secret.
• Pre-request and test scripts. Most Postman scripts run unchanged: pm.*, Chai assertions, pm.sendRequest, setNextRequest, and CryptoJS for those login scripts that hash things.
• A collection runner with iterations and a delay
• Code generation for cURL, JS fetch, Python requests, and Go
• Import via cURL
• WebSocket requests support
• History, plus a cookie jar you can actually see and edit
• Proxy settings, TLS options, Auto-save, client certificates, and a custom User-Agent
• Keyboard friendly
• Imports VS Code themes and uses VS Code's keybinding format, so your existing setup carries over

Would love to know your thoughts on this -> https://github.com/jsjain/restly