Thunder Client
Hand-crafted lightweight Rest client for testing APIs
Thunder Client is Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code, with simple and clean design. The extension makes api testing very easy with Scriptless GUI based testing.
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Thunder Client is praised for its seamless integration with Visual Studio Code, offering a user-friendly interface for API testing. Users appreciate its simplicity and efficiency, often comparing it favorably to Postman. However, recent changes to a paid model have sparked criticism, with some users feeling misled by the initial free offering. Despite this, many find it a valuable tool for streamlining their development workflow, highlighting its ease of use and the convenience of having an API client directly within their coding environment.
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It was fun and super easy to use, unfortunately I have to provide the body before it runs the test. Apart from that it was super intuitive to use!
Thunder Client is a new vision of Rest API testing tool. It is not overloaded with features and has various integrations.
Excellent VSCode Plugin! I love to work and debug with it!
It's an lovely app
So far so smooth! Everything about it has been righteous so far. And when it comes to my stack, when things come together smoothly, it makes developing a way better experience!
Great client, especially in VSCode
Recently went paid with a limit of 25 requests per collection on the free tier.
** BEWARE ** Several reviews have also pointed out it is deleting your collections and environments if you roll back to the previously free version. Happened to me as well.
So convenient to use this along side VSCode, most of the features that I need for API testing/checking is already there. Would love to see new features like Env variables and pre-request script so that we can dump Postman. Great job! 👍
Amazing product integration, I was using postman in the past, but the ability to use an API client directly in VS code is a game changer! Intuitive, Easy to use, swagger file import, ... It's almost perfect !!! A nice feature would be a .thunder file in the VS code project that could be added to a repo and synced with the Thunder client :)
Easy to set up and use. Powerful to have it sit in VS Code alongside your code. Author is very responsive to Github issues.
The app is very good. Simple yet powerful. I would add one thing: the possibility to run a script before a request is sent; for example to retrieve some variable from a database.
Allows me to get rid of Postman, and keep all dev related thigs inside VS Code
Having a powerful and easy-to-use Rest API Client directly in VSC has been life-changing. It's easy to use, organize, and fully featured.