httpx: CLI for http file

http file used by JetBrains IDE and VS Code REST Client for editor http client, and httpx is CLI to execute the http request in http file.

Features

• Execute requests in http file
• Javascript validation support: ECMAScript 5.1 by JetBrains, esnext support by httpx

Get started

Install httpx

deno install -q --location https://deno.land/x/httpx --allow-net --allow-read --allow-env --unstable -r -f -n httpx https://deno.land/x/httpx/cli.ts

index.http file

Create ‘index.http’ file with following code:

### get my internet ip
# @name myip
GET https://httpbin.org/ip

> {%
    client.log("your ip: " + response.body['origin']);
%}

Execute http target

Execute httpx index.http myip on the terminal.

References

• HTTP Request in Editor Specification: https://github.com/JetBrains/http-request-in-editor-spec/blob/master/spec.md
• HTTP client in IntelliJ IDEA code editor: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-code-editor.html
• VS Code REST Client extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client