felangga / chiko

The ultimate beauty gRPC Client on your Terminal!

Chiko - TUI gRPC client

Chiko is a TUI (Terminal User Interface) gRPC client. It is a simple tool to interact with gRPC services using a beautiful terminal interface. This project using grpcurl library to interact with gRPC services, and combine with the beautiful terminal interface using rivo's tview library. I love using grpcurl to interact with the gRPC services, but I'm bad at remembering the flags and the syntax. So, I created this tool to help me interact with the gRPC services easily.

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Install

You can visit the Release Page, and select the version that you want to download, the architecture and the operating system that you are using.

Homebrew

Currently chiko is not available on the homebrew-core, so you can install directly from our repository by using:

brew install felangga/chiko/chiko

Go

go install github.com/felangga/chiko@latest

Manual

git clone https://github.com/felangga/chiko
cd chiko
go run ./...

Features

• List all gRPC methods using server reflections
• Generate sample request payload
• Bookmark support

To Do

• Add support for metadata (headers)
• Add support to import .proto files for services that don't support server reflection
• Add support for any authorization types
• Add dump log to file feature
• Add an option to protect or lock the bookmark library
• Add support to import and export from and to grpcurl command

chiko's Issues

Configurable bookmarks location

Bookmarks location should be configurable. Maybe by a flag, but maybe revisit the default? Does this feel like something that should be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, ~/Library/Application Support on macOS, and %APPDATA% on Windows?

bug: missing Log escaping

Log lines passed to tview need to be escaped, see screenshots of chiko vs grpcurl:

grpcurl:

chiko:

FR: copy as grpcurl command

Hi @felangga,

Thanks for this great tool!

Would be nice to have a "copy as grpcurl" command, which copy the appropriate grpcurl text to the clipboard

FR: allow highlighting and copying from Logs section

Would be very helpful to be able to copy text from the Logs