nvim-runscript

Neovim users, you may not need Postman, nvim-runscript is the lightweight plugin you may need for API observation, testing, and debugging in a Unix-Philosophy way.

Why

• Lightweight and fast
• The request scripts can be written in any language as long as they are executable
• The request scripts can be added to Git repository and shared between teammates
• You may run them in pure CLI without neovim for debugging purposes
• It is easy to manipulate the response with tool that you like, and write complicated script
  • Fetch author detail of the github repository
  • Fetch user profile with OAuth token

Requirement

Developed and tested it on neovim v0.7

Install

Install with packer:

use {
  "klesh/nvim-runscript",
  config = function() require("nvim-runscript").setup{} end
}

How to use

1. Open a executable script file, i.e. example/github/get-repo-detail.sh.
2. Run commands :RunScript.
   1. A RESULT buffer should be appear on the bottom.
   2. The output of the process should be piped to the RESULT buffer.
   3. A markdown file wil be saved into example/github/get-repo-detail.sh.result/.
3. You may re-run the script from RESULT buffer.