recipeui / recipeui

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RecipeUI

RecipeUI is rethinking how we use API tools like Postman or Insomnia. We're starting off with TypeScript powered API requests and API collections you can run in seconds!

Try us out www.recipeui.com

Built with

Couldn't have built this app without some really amazing packages

• 🐻 Zustand + immer for global state management
• 💨 Tailwind + 🌼 DaisyUI for making me build pretty and native html components
• 🔺 NextJS + Vercel for a seamless frontend framework and deployment package
• ⚡ Supabase for a seamless backend service that has many cool features.
• 🪞 Codemirror for the easy code editor plugin
• 🦖 Docusaurus for docs!
• Other fun stuff: pnpm, downshift, fuse, react18-json-view

Contributing

Contributing code to our repo is as simple as building an API collection to share with the community! APIs are always a pain to deal with, so it'd be awesome if you could help other people use public or private APIs by building collections.

You will need to run our desktop app locally. https://docs.recipeui.com/docs/Contributing/setup

Then read our guide on contributing to our repo. https://docs.recipeui.com/docs/Contributing/collections

Open source

We are open sourced because we use so much open source technology and we want to be transparent about how we actually make API requests. We don't store any API secrets in the cloud and we limit the telemetry we collect to the user experience portions.

Contributors

Dave Tang 🤔 📖 🧑‍🏫	Julian Berman 🐛	Rafael Revi 🔌	Benny Neugebauer 🐛	0x80085 🤔	Niwilai 🤔	Thomas Alrek 🤔
jinyus 🤔	Tim Häring 💻	Ashish 💻

recipeui's Issues

Pressing enter doesn't send request

Pressing enter should send the request when the input field is in focus.

`readme.md` has an incorrect link to `posthog.ts`.

Issue:

readme.md has a wrong link of posthog.ts file

Fix:

created a fix here: #2

Feature request: Add support for client certs

Many organizations authenticate internal APIs with a PKI. This translates, in API usage, into authentication with client certificates. Option --cert or -E in curl. This is the only major block for me to migrate away from Postman.

Add Scope input field for OAUTH2.0

Can you elaborate on why the 'Scope' field is missing / not present when using "Client Credentials" for OAUTH2.0?

The error message I get in the console:

Thanks in advance!

Feature request: Add support for Basic auth

Many API's still use Basic auth, I can work around it manually by creating the header myself, but it would be very convenient to have it built in.

Import from Insomnia

Currently choosing a an alternative to Insomnia and decided to try RecipeUI but there doesn't seem to be a way to import a local Insomnia file.

Feature request: Support gRPC

The main reason I stick with postman is their support for gRPC: https://blog.postman.com/postman-now-supports-grpc/

Load collection from OpenAPI json spec

It was suprising to find out that I can't create a collection from an existing, deployed OpenAPI spec.

How it could/should work:

• I can "create a collection from existing OpenAPI spec" by pasting the link to the specification's JSON
• the collection is automatically updated with new/modified endpoints whenever the underlying OpenAPI JSON is internally updated
• the types are inferred from the OpenAPI JSON

Can you report this issue to us on our discord?

Hi, I just tried your software and it shows me this:

{
  "error": "Something went wrong. Can you report this issue to us on our discord?"
}

What's your Discord channel?

Screenshot

FYI: Add RecipeUI 0.7.7 to Homebrew

Related pull request: Homebrew/homebrew-cask#154675

Support for WS

web sockets are widely used, would be happy to get its support in RecipeUI

Flathub release

I use Postman from Flathub currently, would love to see RecipeUI available as a Flatpak also.

keep it up fam

Suggestion: Enable Arch linux install (publish to AUR)

To do so we need a PKGBUILD file and a github action (like this)

Feature request: Add ability to use PATCH HTTP verb

Which could be useful for making JSON Patch type requests.

Thanks for making this cool project!

Respect Content-Type header for request body

Currently the request body is sent in raw JSON form, regardless of the Content-Type header.
i.e. if I set it to application/x-www-form-urlencoded, I would expect the body to be sent in an encoded key-value format.

Feature request: Support plain text body

I have to support a few APIs that use plain text instead of JSON inside message bodies.
Currently I'm not able to move my test requests for them from Insomnia to RecipeIU. Would be great if I could.

Also it seems it to be genereally useful to be able to send arbitrary plain text, for it will instantly allow suppont of any non-json text message body format (XML, base64 соme to mind). Also should be pretty trivial to implement.

bug: Inconsistent Handling of Content-Type in Request Headers

When sending a request with the headers specifying content-type as either application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data, the backend always receives the request with the content-type set as multipart/form-data, and the body parsed as a FormData object. This behavior does not align with the expected behavior.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Set the content-type in the request header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
2. Send a POST request to the API endpoint.

Expected Behavior:
The content-type specified in the request header (either application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data) should be preserved without automatic conversion. Additionally, the request body should be parsed according to the specified content-type header.

Actual Behavior:
The content-type in the request header changes to multipart/form-data, and the request body is parsed as a FormData object.

Found in:

• App Version: v0.8.9
• Environment: Windows 11

Auto-complete keyboard shortcut conflicts with default macOS Spotlight

The example type definition that's provided when creating a request says:

This will add auto-complete (CMD+SPACE) and validation!

CMD + space is the default hotkey for opening Spotlight search on macOS. Is there a way to remap the autocomplete shortcut?

The default example type definition:

// Define your request body with TypeScript.
// This will add auto-complete (CMD+SPACE) and validation!

export interface APIRequestParams {
  model: "gpt-3.5-turbo" | "gpt-4" | "gpt-3";
  messages: {
    role: "system" | "user";
    content: string;
  }[];
}

Self Host Web Client

Hello, I'd like to integrate RecipeUI into a Coder template, but for that, I'd need to use RecipeUI from a web browser. Is possible to self host RecipeUI Web? If so, how?

After logging in, the login process cycles and the app becomes unusable

Here is a recording. This happened immediately after logging in with github, and as soon as I open the app.

Feature Request: groups of global variables (Environment Variables)

It would be really helpful to have groups of global variables that can be switched between (ie. postman's Environments).

I'm not sure what your guys plan/thinking is behind copying features from postman, but it would be really helpful to have an equivalent feature in RecipeUI.

I'm happy to work on a pr

Discord is not working

I have tried to go into your discord server but it is not working.

Tried Importing request using curl which did not work.

Tried copying curl from postman/internet and tried to import but did not work

missing libssl.so when install via deb package on ubuntu 23.04

(base) ➜ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/recipe-ui_0.7.2_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package recipe-ui.
(Reading database ... 477099 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../recipe-ui_0.7.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking recipe-ui (0.7.2) ...
Setting up recipe-ui (0.7.2) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.6+22.04.20220217-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

(base) ➜  recipe-ui
recipe-ui: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried to installed libssl related packages but it does not help.

E: Unable to locate package libssl1.1
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libssl1.1'

(base) ➜ sudo apt install libssl-dev

[sudo] password for cheng: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  libssl-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libssl-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,377 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-updates/main amd64 libssl-dev amd64 3.0.8-1ubuntu1.2 [2,377 kB]
Fetched 2,377 kB in 2s (1,064 kB/s)     
Selecting previously unselected package libssl-dev:amd64.
(Reading database ... 403345 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libssl-dev_3.0.8-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libssl-dev:amd64 (3.0.8-1ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libssl-dev:amd64 (3.0.8-1ubuntu1.2) ...
(base) ➜  dongapi git:(master) sudo apt --fix-broken install

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
(base) ➜  recipe-ui 
recipe-ui: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Feature Request: Accessibility or Plugin support

I'd like to add RecipeUI to the list of supported WakaTime IDEs but would need the ability to run plugins inside RecipeUI, or have Accessibility events enabled inside RecipeUI.

Homepage has a broken button link

(Hi! Nice looking project!)

The homepage seems to have a button with a broken link. Specifically:

• Go to https://home.recipeui.com/
• Click "API Network" in the navbar
• The "Check it out at RecipeUI" button doesn't lead anywhere (I guess from the button text it's meant to simply go to the RecipeUI homepage?)

"can't find variable: structuredClone"

I just downloaded the desktop app (mac, intel chip), and I'm getting an alert every time I attempt to make a request telling me "Can't find variable: structuredClone".

.zip / portable / user\appdata\local installation option

Are there plans for adding "install-less" version for users without local admin rights?
Current .msi does not seem to be passing UAC without admin credentials, presumably because it aims for ProgramFiles (?).

• Preferably plain zip with single folder, with all future disk writes happening inside the same folder.
• Or some kind of "portable" format (not very familiar with them).
• Alternatively some installs falls back to installing into local user's data folder instead (seen most web browsers doing this), or use it from the start without even trying ProgramFiles.

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Sorry if this question is silly or too niche. I just like having "movable" apps toolkit that it is possible to move around and adjust in relative isolation from the rest of the OS (Windows in this case).