luc

🚧🏗️ Under construction...

luc is a personal CLI-based pre-configured request runner I am building on my free-time.

Motivation

I am not satisfied with most request runners available today (Postman, Insomnia etc) for a couple of reasons:

They force you to adopt a very specific, UI-centric workflow;
Scripts are not generic enough: you're constrained to Javascript that runs inside their runtime;
Running them in CI/CD workflows is a pain;
They're not designed with version control as a source of truth. While you can export request collections, the source of truth is the application itself;
They're slowly becoming corporate bloatware.

Some design principles I'm taking into consideration:

100% free software (MIT license);
All request configurations live in human-readable files checked into version control;
Request configurations might be written in markdown to also serve as documentation;
JSON-based RPC via STDIN/STDOUT for running before and after request hooks (allows for scripting in any language to be used);
(Possibly) implement thin RPC clients in many languages (python, node, rust, go...);
Environment is king. Native support for .env files.
Should be very simple to install via cargo, binary download or CI template;
Should be very fast and efficient (greenthreads over multithreaded runtime).