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, assertions and other features, but they are all on the [roadmap](https://noodlerest.dev/roadmap/).

**Install:**

    curl -LsSf <https://noodlerest.dev/install.sh> | sh

**Repo:** [github.com/wilfredinni/noodle](http://github.com/wilfredinni/noodle)

**Docs:** [https://noodlerest.dev/docs/](https://noodlerest.dev/docs/)

**Roadmap**: [https://noodlerest.dev/roadmap/](https://noodlerest.dev/roadmap/)

I built this for myself but figured others might want something similar. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Noodle: a REST client for your terminal