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Huachao
vscode-restclient
TypeScript2017–2025
Huachao / vscode-restclient

vscode-restclient

REST Client Extension for Visual Studio Code

17Distinct people
18Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6.1KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

REST Client Extension for Visual Studio Code

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-10-18 12:34:21 UTC to 2025-11-21 16:31:25 UTC.

01232017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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FWIW if someone wants a tool like this with better support, JetBrains has defined a .http file format that contains a DSL for making HTTP requests and running JS on the results. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... There's a CLI tool for executing these files: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-cli.html There's a substantially similar plugin for VSCode here: https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient
In FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
This looks interesting. Longtime user of the Vscode-restclient, but have been moving over to httpyac lately for the scripting and cli use. Will take a look to see if hurl is a good fit. One annoying thing I've found in testing these tools is that a standard hasn't emerged for using the results of one request as input for another in the syntax of `.http` files. These three tools for instance have three different ways of doing it: * hurl uses `[Captures]` * Vscode-restclient does it by referencing request names in a variable declaration (like: `@token = {{loginAPI.response.body.token}}`). * While httpyac uses `@ref` syntax. From a quick round of testing it seems like using the syntax for one might break the other tools. [1]: https://hurl.dev/docs/capturing-response.html [2]: https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient [3]: https://httpyac.
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In Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

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