Been building Voiden, an API IDE on Electron. Not really “just an API client”, and not a(nother) thin wrapper around a webapp either.
Made it intially available for Windows and Mac, but after getting requests from folks who work on Linux, we added Linux support a few months ago, before open-sourcing it. (That’s actually one of the reasons we picked electron :to be able to ship fast and have cross platform consistency across Linux, Mac and Windows.)
Repo: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
So far, Voiden is available on Linux via:
- .deb for Ubuntu and Debian-based distros .rpm for Fedora, RHEL, and other RPM-based distros
- .AppImage for a portable option that should work across most distributions
- .AUR package for Arch users : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/voiden-beta-appimage
Definitely considering adding more like Nix or Flatpak, but we are working to get our priorities right: Which ones would you actually use and prefer?
A disclaimer about the tool: Since we didn’t want to build yet another (cheaper) clone of Postman, Voiden looks and feels very different:
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The UI is “programmable”: Requests are “built” with slash commands from blocks (endpoints, headers, auth, params, bodies, etc.), like LEGO blocks but for API components. Or like Notion for APIs.
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These blocks can be also reused in different APIs to have ALL common elements done in one single file. You can then change them once and it will all get updated in all the other docs. Just like in code when we add an extra logic to an imported method. (In other API clients you would need to duplicate stuff or just use environment variables to substitute.)
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API Specs, tests, and docs live together in executable Markdown.
Welcome to try it out and let us know: what works, what breaks, and which packaging or distro support would make Voiden easiest for you?
Strong opinions are encouraged. :)
Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden Download here : https://voiden.md/download
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