It’s then followed up with a healthy dose of further information and examples of how to use it, but in essence, it’s an HTTP tool built in to VS Code. REST Client has the most obvious name for a tool that’s ever existed and its VS Code marketplace description sums up exactly what it does: “REST Client allows you to send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code directly.”
So when I decided it was a pain to have to fire up Postman or Insomnia every time I needed to test a new API route, I found out about REST Client, the plugin that makes that unnecessary. I’m a fan of VS Code as a code editor, and have been for a number of years now, and every time I learn about a new useful plugin someone has created and added to the VS Code marketplace, I am immensely grateful for it. The best part? Getting started with REST Client is incredibly simple, and I’m going to show you just how easy (and full featured) this plugin is, right here, right now. No longer do we need to exit the IDE to test APIs, because now a plugin exists to do just that: REST Client. Now in the past, in order to test REST APIs before wiring up the UI to accept the data, typically you’d have to either query the API through a terminal’s command line, or use a GUI like Insomnia or Postman (which I actually compared in a previous blog post).īut now, if you use VS Code (and why wouldn’t you, it’s so nice to write code in!) life has just gotten simpler.
In laymen’s terms: the data we want exists in some other service or database, and our application queries that service to retrieve the data and use it as we see fit. If you’ve been doing web development for any length of time, you’re probably aware that a lot of our job revolves around data: reading data, writing data, manipulating data and displaying it in the browser in a way that makes sense.Īnd the vast majority of that data is supplied from REST API endpoints: representational state transfer application programming interfaces (what a mouth full 🥵, hence REST API). Photo by Carlos Muza on Unsplash Web Developers fetch a lot of data
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