Restless

A CLI-based http client

Installation

If you don't want to globally install the package, omit the -g flag

Mac/Linux

sudo npm install -g restless

Windows

npm i -g restless

Info

Usage: restless <command>

Aliases: rest

Version: 0.1.2

Notes

• The commands rest and restlessare interchangeable.
• Data persists when updgrading the CLI, because it is stored in a /tmp/ file
• Used with commander.js
• Command output is meant to resemble Cliffy (Deno successor of commander.js) command output.
• Cliffy is better than commander.js, but Restless uses commander because Node provides a simpler user experience than Deno
• I highly recommend Cliffy
• All user data is stored in /tmp/restless/data.json

Commands

Collection

Usage: restless collection <subcommand> [options]

Aliases c

Description: The collection command can be used to manage collections.

Note: Collections are places to store template requests; each collection would typically be for each project that you make. Say you have a project that is called "Hello World" that has an API that requires testing. Create a collection with a meaningful name in relation to the project, like: hello-world. This collection would be where you store all of your requests.

Add

• Usage: restless collection add <name>
• Aliases: a,
• Description: Add a collection
• Arguments:
  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the collection to be added

Rename

• Usage: restless collection rename <old-name> <new-name>
• Aliases: none,
• Description: Change the name of a collection
• Arguments:
  • old-name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the collection to be renamed
  • new-name
    • Type: string
    • Description: The new name of the collection

Remove

• Usage: restless collection remove <name>
• Aliases: rm,
• Description: Remove/delete a collection
• Arguments:
  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the collection to be removed

List

• Usage: restless collection list
• Aliases: l,
• Description: List all collections

Use

• Usage: restless collection use <name>
• Aliases: u,
• Description: Select a collection to be used
• Arguments:
  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the collection to be selected

Current

• Usage: restless collection current
• Aliases: c,
• Description: Output the currently selected collection

Request

Usage: restless request <subcommand> [options]

Aliases r

Description: The request command can be used to create, view, update, and delete requests in the current selected collection.

Note: Requests get sent with the send command.

Set

• Usage: restless request set <request-name>

• Aliases: s,

• Description: Create a request, or update an existing one

• Arguments:

  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the request to be modified/created

• Options:

  • --host

    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    • Description: The host for the request

  • --url

    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    • Description: The url for the request

  • -e, --endpoint

    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    • Description: Set the endpoint for the request to be sent to

  • -b, --body

    • Note: This option is interesting; You can pass in a URL to a .txt, .yml/.yaml, or .json file. If the file is YAML, it'll be parsed to JSON. A txt file will be sent as plaintext. As well you can pass YAML (which will be parsed to JSON) or JSON data.
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    • Description: Set the endpoint for the request to be sent to
    • Examples
      • -b ./req.yml
      • -b ./req.json
      • -b ./req.txt
      • -b 'ping: pong' - If valid YAML, will be parsed to JSON
      • -b '{"ping": "pong"}'
      • -b 'ping'

  • -h, --header

    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    • Description: Set a header
    • Usage: key:value - Key/Value pairs are separated by a colon (:)
    • Example
      • -h 'X-auth-key:my-secret-key'

  • -m, --method

    • Type: GET | POST | PUT | PATCH | DELETE | OPTIONS | HEAD |
    • Required: false
    • Description: Set the request method
    • Examples
      • -m get
      • -m GET
      • -m GeT - Uses String.prototype.toUpperCase(), casing doesn't matter

Remove

• Usage: restless request remove <request-name>

• Aliases: rm,

• Description: Remove a request in the current collection

• Arguments:

  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the request to be removed

Check

• Usage: restless request check <request-name>

• Aliases: c,

• Description: Check if a request has sufficient data to be sent.

• Arguments:

  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the request to be checked

Info

• Usage: restless request info <request-name>

• Aliases: i,

• Description: Read the info of a request

• Arguments:

  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the request to be checked

• Options:

  • -b, --body: Show the body of the request to be sent
  • -c, --collapse: Only neccessary if --body is true, minifies JSON output

List

• Usage: restless request list
• Aliases: l,
• Description: List all requests in the current collection

Send

• Usage: restless send <request-name>

• Alternate Usage: restless request send <request-name>

• Aliases: s,

• Description: Sends a request

• Arguments:

  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Name of the request to be sent

Host

The host command is a way to set url variables, in a sense. For example, if you have a project hosted on http://localhost:3000, and don't want to write the full url every time you make a request, you can set a host to reference http://localhost:3000, then reference the host, instead of the full url

• Usage: restless host <sub-command>
• Aliases: h,
• Description: Manage all hosts

Set

• Usage: restless host set <host-name> <url>

• Aliases: s,

• Description: Create a reference to a url origin

• Example:

  • restless host set dev http://localhost:3000 - This can be referenced later with: restless request set ping --host dev to point to the http://localhost:3000 URL without needing to write the URL for every request

• Arguments:

  • host-name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Reference name of the host
  • url
    • Type: string - Must be a valid URL
    • Description: Value that the host reference points to

Rename

• Usage: restless host rename <old-name> <new-name>

• Aliases: r,

• Description: Rename a host variable

• Arguments:

  • old-name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Reference name of the host
  • new-name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Value for the host to be renamed to

Remove

• Usage: restless host remove <name>

• Aliases: rm,

• Description: Remove a host variable

• Arguments:

  • name
    • Type: string
    • Description: Reference name of the host to be removed

List

• Usage: restless host list
• Aliases: l,
• Description: List all hosts in the current selected collection

Cat

• Usage: restless cat

• Aliases: none,

• Description: Shows the content of the file where your user data is stored

• Options

  • -c, --collapse: Minifies JSON output

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