post-turtle is a simple shell based Postman alternative written in TypeScript. It is designed to help developers make quick API requests on the fly without having to use something as heavy as Postman
npm install -g post-turtle
pt called without any arguments will trigger an interactive command line
interface. You can use this interface to create, update or delete existing
requests, as well as triggering ones that have been created.
Requests that have been created using interactive mode are stored in your home
directory in a file called .post-turtle-request. Once you have created some
requests, these requests will be available to call
non-interactively using pt call <slug>
All request fields can contain 'parameters' by using a simplified handlebars syntax. If a
request contains parameters in the form {{ name : description }}, it will have the following effect
- Triggering the request via interactive mode will produce an input field for each parameter
- The command generated by
pt callwill also include a required--optionfor that parameter
This package is written in TypeScript using a combination of ink to allow me to write a great responsive CLI experience using my React skills and commander.js to provide a nice non-interactive CLI setup