Postier - a modern HTTP client

Postier is a cross-platform HTTP client built with Tauri, designed to be a feature light alternative to Postman and equivalent.

I want it fully open-source, with no account and privacy respectful.

Story

I'm just tired of 'free' software that embark a shitload of feature, mandatory user account and creepy privacy statement.

So I wanted to create a tool that make only what it says and make it open-source.

I know that developing this kind of stuff implies a lot of features (like making graphql call and not only http) but this is a cool adventure so - let's go :)

You can embark with me by contributing or via a tips.

Features

• HTTP Request Support

  • Supports GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS and PATCH methods
  • URL input with method selection
  • Request body editor (formats: form-data, raw as text or javascript or JSON or HTML or XML, none)
  • Headers managements
  • Request history

• Response Handling

  • Real-time response display
  • Response in raw or preview or pretty
  • If the response is view in "pretty" you have syntax-highlighted via prism-react-renderer
  • Response headers viewer
  • HTTP status code display

• User Interface

  • Modern, clean design using Radix UI & icon
  • Dark/Light/Auto mode support (via Radix theme)
  • Pretty theme choice (via prism-react-renderer)
  • Accent color choice (via Radix theme)
  • UI scale choice (via Radix theme)

• Self sync config & history

  • Config and history are saved into two txt file, like so you can sync it the way you want.
  • Example of path in linux (both path are visible via the setting tab):
    • /home/$USER/.local/share/com.postier.app/history.txt
    • /home/$USER/.config/com.postier.app/history.txt

Roadmap

https://github.com/users/bouteillerAlan/projects/4/views/2

Tech Stack

• Frontend Framework: React with TypeScript
• Desktop Framework: Tauri
• UI Components: Radix UI
• HTTP Client: Tauri build-in plugin
• FS API: Tauri build-in plugin
• Syntax Highlighting: prism-react-renderer

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v22.14.0 or higher)
• pnpm
• Rust (for Tauri)

Local Development

1. Install dependencies:

pnpm install

2. Start the development server:

pnpm tauri dev

Docker Development

WIP

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Code of conduct, license, authors, changelog, contributing

See the following file :

• code of conduct
• license
• authors
• contributing
• changelog
• security

Want to support my work?

• Give me a tips on GitHub or on Ko-fi
• Give a star on GitHub
• Or just participate in the development :D

Thanks !