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.

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.

Edit: some errors on links and repeated features