I conducted a Poll on LinkedIn about API testing tools and results were one sided for postman. I was surprise to find that Thunder Client, Insomnia API testing tools are not so popular among developers. In this post, I am exploring Thunder Client.
If you are a developer who do not want to leave their IDE ! Thunder client in VSCode is your best friend.
Thunder Client is a lightweight Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code.
More reason to consider
- You install extension from VSCode
- You do not have to sign up ๐คฉ (I love it!)
- Simple & Easy to use UI
- Supports Collections and Environment variables & GraphQL Queries. ๐
- Scriptless Testing ๐๐คฉ
How to Install : Go to extensions, search Thunder Client and hit "Install" button
In editor ??
Isn't this awesome! ๐. Some screen capture to checkout.
To learn more about thunder client extension go here
Happy exploring, I'm sure you will find it easy and ready to go. If you are using it, Please share your experience or questions.