RequestBite Slingshot

About

Slingshot is a web-based HTTP request client that is highly performant, low on resources, privacy respecting, local-first, free and open-source. The source-code in this repository is what powers RequestBite Slingshot at s.requestbite.com.

Some notable features

• Highly performant
  Cached version easily reloads in 2-500 ms if you accidentally hit the F5 button.
• Local-first
  By default all your data is stored locally in your browser (we're currently working on supporting syncing data to your RequestBite account). You don't even need an account to fully use it.
• Privacy respecting
  All data can be stored locally and your requests don't need to pass through our servers (unless you want to). Slingshot uses the RequestBite Proxy to make HTTP requests which you can run locally (configurable in the app). This also allows you to call APIs local on your computer or behind a firewall or VPN (resources not publicly available on the Internet).
• Import / export
  Support for importing Swagger and OpenAPI specifications as well as Postman Collections. Also support exporting collections in Postman format.
• Bonus feature
  Support for (most) ANSI color escape sequences do enjoy terminal based HTTP services such as wttr.in.

Hosted version

Run the hosted version:

• https://s.requestbite.com

Documentation:

• https://docs.requestbite.com/slingshot/

Run and manage app locally

To run the app locally, you must first rename the file .env.example to .env.local and update any variables in it accordingly (see instructions in the file itself). You can then run and manage the locally running app running make using the provided Makefile.

Install dependencies:

make install

Run development server:

make dev

Run Storybook development server to explore UI components in project:

make storybook

Build for dev or prod

To make a development or production build of Slingshot, you must first copy .env.example (or .env.local) to .env.dev for development builds and .env.prod for production builds. The separation allows you to deploy these builds to e.g. different BunnyCDN targets for testing and for production use.

Make production build:

make build prod

Make development build:

make build dev

Deploy to dev or prod

If you have configured the BunnyCDN section of your .env.dev or .env.prod file, you can deploy to your configured target like below.

Deploy to production:

make deploy prod dist/{folder}

Deploy to dev:

make deploy dev dist/{folder}

Replace {folder} with the folder name from when you ran make build {env}.

Contributing

We currently don't have the resources to handle pull requests or code suggestions as we're actively working on extending and improving the product based on a (somewhat) planned backlog, but you're more than welcome to submit bug reports or feature suggestions.

Related Projects

• RequestBite Proxy.

License

RequestBite Slingshot is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.