Thunder Client

Name: Thunder Client
Rating: 4.4 (16 reviews)

Hand-crafted lightweight Rest client for testing APIs

4.4•16 reviews•

232 followers

Hand-crafted lightweight Rest client for testing APIs

4.4•16 reviews•

232 followers

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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 Launches

Thunder Client CLIA new way to test APIs inside VS Code

Launched on February 8th, 2023

Thunder ClientRest API client for VS Code, lightweight Postman alternative

Launched on March 31st, 2021

4.4

Based on 16 reviews

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Reviewers mostly praise Thunder Client for being easy to set up, intuitive, and convenient inside VS Code, letting them keep API testing close to their code and, for some, replace Postman. Users also call out useful touches like Swagger import, good organization, responsive support, and even running requests from remote machines behind a VPN. The main complaints are about missing workflow features such as pre-request scripts, environment variables, repo-syncable files, and one sharp criticism of free-tier limits and reports of collections or environments being deleted after rolling back versions.

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VSCode integration (7)

easy to use (6)

replaces Postman (3)

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•2 reviews

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 :)

What's great

easy to use (6)VSCode integration (7)replaces Postman (3)swagger file import (1)

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Thanks Remy for the great review.

You save requests data to repo by enabling setting "Save To Workspace"

Details here
https://docs.thunderclient.com/team

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3yr ago

•1 review

What I find uniquely useful about Thunder Client is the ability to execute API calls from remote machines. This lets you make request when the API server is only accessible from within a VPN.

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remote API calls (1)

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•1 review

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.

What needs improvement

free tier limitations (1)deletes collections on rollback (1)

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25 views3yr ago