👉👉👉 This extension is still under development.

👉👉👉 Latest VS Code Insiders is required and at times this extension might be broken.

REST Book

REST Book is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows you to perform REST calls in a Notebook interface.

Features

• Create and run REST Calls within cells.
• Organize multiple REST Calls within one file.
• Intermingle markdown for documenting your calls.
• View rich HTML and image responses directly inside the Notebook.
• Basic Authentication
• Use data from one call in the next

Requirements

Must be using the latest version of Visual Studio Code Insiders edition.

Usage

1. Create a new file to store your REST Calls with a .restbook ending.
2. Add an code cell by hovering over the middle of the Notebook and clicking the + Code
3. Add your intended URL as the first line of the cell. By default without specifying a method, it will be a GET call.

More examples

google.com

is equivalent to:

GET google.com

Parameters

In subsequent lines immediately following the first line add any parameters or queries starting with ? or & like this:

GET https://www.google.com
    ?query="fun"
    &page=2

Headers

In the lines following without an empty line will be considered as the Request Headers:

GET https://www.google.com
    ?query="fun"
    &page=2
User-Agent: rest-book
Content-Type: application/json 

Bodies

The last lines after a new line separator is the body of the call. Like the following:

POST https://www.myapi.com
User-Agent: rest-book
Content-Type: application/json 

{
    name: "Foo",
    text: "Foo is the most bar of the Foos" 
}

Or you can load the body from another file like so:

POST https://www.myapi.com
User-Agent: rest-book
Content-Type: application/json 

./body.txt

Variables

You can also assign the responses from calls to a variable and use the data from that response in future calls. To do this you would just declare a variable with let and the name of your variable and then a = like so:

let foo = GET google.com

And then in future cells you can reference foo in your calls with a $ sign. Here's a short example:

To test these interactions, you can play around with this simple server: SandboxServer

Known Issues

Unable to save responses. This should be fixed soon in the next few versions of VS Code Insiders.

Any Other issues

Please submit your issue on the tanhakabir/rest-book repository with exact reproduction steps.