Hotkey support can boost developer productivity.The extension supports different variable types: environment (including shared), file, and prompt (meaning the extension asks the user to enter a value when the request is executed).Responses are displayed in a separate, side-by-side window and include all the headers and the response payload, if applicable (with collapsible sections ✨).The extension displays “red squiggles” under variables it can’t resolve in a request file (which usually means the variable isn’t defined or you have the wrong environment selected).Defining and swapping between environments is quick and easy.rest files can be safely committed to source control and shared with your development team. The ability to dynamically set variables based on responses and use those variables in downstream requests allows for powerful request chaining.The clean, Markdown-like syntax for building requests is intuitive and developer-friendly.If Visual Studio Code is already your editor of choice, then the REST Client extension is just a few clicks away–no need to install and use an external application to send your HTTP requests.That said, here are some additional thoughts (both positive and negative) after having used the extension on a few projects now: For full documentation of the REST Client extension, please see the project’s GitHub page here. I can’t cover all the features of this extension in a single blog post–there are just too many □. When run sequentially, the first request sets the content_hub_token variable and the second request gets the variable and uses the value in its Authorization header to authenticate against Content Hub to pull the assets. Here’s an excerpt from a sample Visual Studio Code settings.json file that defines a few variables in three different environments: For sensitive values, that should be something like Azure Key Vault, CyberArk, etc. Granted, there’s a convenience tradeoff: developers must share their variables and secrets using an external tool or service. Unlike Postman, the REST Client extension doesn’t concern itself with the handling, storing, or transmission of variables. The extension pulls environments and variables from Visual Studio Code settings (read: the settings.json file) which, upshot, is never (er…at least shouldn’t ever be) under source control developers need not worry about committing secrets to the repository. The REST Client extension handles environment variables (secret or otherwise) in a way that I consider to be elegant, which is to say it doesn’t handle them at all (and that’s a good thing!) □. The first thing you’ll want to do after installing the extension is set up your environments and variables.
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