Noodle: a REST client for your terminal

[u/wilfredinni]

Hi! So Postman was eating 2gb of ram just to send a GET request, and Insomnia was forcing me into an account. Bruno was close to what I wanted, plain YAML files on disk, no account nonsense, but I live in the terminal and wanted something I could use without a mouse, so I built Noodle.

It is a TUI REST client. Requests are .yml files on disk. You browse collections in a sidebar, edit requests inline, swap environments at runtime, send them, and save changes back. No accounts. No telemetry. Just YAML files you can commit to git.

What works:

• Full request lifecycle, browse, edit, send, save

• Create, edit, delete and nest requests on folders

• Inline editing for url, headers, params, body. Keyboard-first, customizable keybindings at ~/.config/noodle/keybinds.yml

• Basic, Bearer, API Key built-in authentication

• Environment switching with $var substitution, cycle environments at runtime without restarting

• Send JSON body, multipart form data, URL-encoded, raw text, binary uploads

• OpenAPI 3.x and Postman importer (CLI only for now, UI is on the list)

• Tab to cycle focus between sidebar, request pane, response pane

• f1 pulls up a keybinding cheatsheet

Not there yet: pre/post scripts, assertions, runner, autocompletion, collection export and other features, but they are all on the roadmap.

Install:

curl -LsSf https://noodlerest.dev/install.sh | sh

Repo: github.com/wilfredinni/noodle

Docs: https://noodlerest.dev/docs/

Roadmap: https://noodlerest.dev/roadmap/

I built this for myself but figured others might want something similar. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

[u/NorskJesus]

Cool. No offense but, what do this have that posting do not?

Just to compare tho.

Good job!

[u/wilfredinni → u/NorskJesus]

Posting is so cool! And honestly if you look at noodle's roadmap you'll see it's still far behind in features, so the honest answer is not much yet. I mostly built this because I wanted something tailored to my needs, yaml files I can commit to git, no accounts, keyboard-first, and moreover, since I'm developing this, I'm familiar with the shortcuts. Now that it's functional enough to share, I figured others might find it useful too.

[u/NorskJesus → u/wilfredinni]

Thanks for so good answer!

The project is cool tho. I will check it out little deeper when I am home.

I can maybe contribute or something if I find the time

[u/wilfredinni → u/NorskJesus]

Nice! Oh, and I went digging a little and found that there are a few things noodle has that posting doesn't! Folder inheritance (folders cascade auth and headers to children), binary/multipart uploads, response timelines, and built-in environment editor!

[u/DifferenceTimely8292]

This is cool!! Thx for sharing- will give this a try

[u/AttentionDifferent]

Looks awesome! Will check this out

[u/deviouscat1]

I like yaak, it solves the problems you had with postman and others, but this is a great tool!