
VS Code Tip of the Week: The Thunder Client Extension
Nick Taylor - Jul 4 '22 -
- Dev Community
This week's VS Code Tip off the Week is the Thunder Client extension.
Thunder Client is a lightweight Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code
There's amazing tools out there like Postman, Postwoman (now Hoppscotch), etc. but I like the fact that I can use this directly within VS Code.

Select Thunder Client New Request from the available items in the list.

The New Request window opens with a test GET request to https://www.thunderclient.com/welcome.
Click the SEND button to make the GET request. A response from thunderclient.com is returned.
"about": "Thunder Client is a hand-crafted lightweight Rest API Client extension for VS Code.",
"createdBy": "Ranga Vadhineni",
"github": "github.com/rangav/thunder-client-support",
"twitter": "twitter.com/thunder_client",
"auth": "Supported Authentication methods Basic Auth, Bearer Token & OAuth 2.0",
"graphql": "The client supports Graphql Query & Variables",
"support": "For Bugs & Feature requests please submit on github",
"share": "Please spread the word about Thunder Client"
}"/>
There's a lot more you can do with the extension, so I encourage you to check out their repository on GitHub!
Thunder Client is a lightweight Rest API Client Extension for VS Code.
Thunder Client

Thunder Client is a lightweight Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code, hand-crafted by Ranga Vadhineni with a focus on simplicity, clean design and local storage. The source code is not open source. You can report any Bugs Or Feature requests here.
Story behind Thunder Client
- Read Launch Blog Post on Medium
Milestones
- The extension was launched on March 31st, 2021
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500K downloads on Dec 20th, 2021
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1 Million downloads on July 13th, 2022
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Innovations
- First to introduce GUI based API Client for VS Code.
- First to introduce 100% local storage API Client.
- First to introduce Scriptless Testing.
- First to introduce an advanced CLI that runs Requests, Collections and cURL commands.
- More to come...
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