ATAC ⚔📩
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## Table Of Contents
- [Description](#description)
- [How to install](#how-to-install)
* [Install with cargo](#install-with-cargo)
* [Install with Homebrew](#install-with-homebrew)
* [Install from Arch](#install-from-arch)
* [Install from Fedora copr](#install-from-fedora-copr)
* [Docker package](#docker-package)
* [Binary](#binary)
* [Compile by yourself](#compile-by-yourself)
- [Features](#features)
* [Current](#current)
* [TODO v1.0.0](#todo-v100)
* [TODO v2.0.0](#todo-v200)
- [Documentation](#documentation)
- [Others](#others)
* [Vim key-bindings](#vim-key-bindings)
* [NeoVim integration](#neovim-integration)
* [Themes](#themes)
- [Technical precisions](#technical-precisions)
* [Tested on](#tested-on)
* [Dependencies](#dependencies)
* [Binary size](#binary-size)
- [Contributors](#contributors)
* [Maintainers](#maintainers)
* [Packagers](#packagers)
- [Star history](#star-history)
- [License](#license)
## Description
ATAC is **A**rguably a **T**erminal **A**PI **C**lient.
It is based on well-known clients such as Postman, Insomnia, or even Bruno,
but inside your terminal without any specific graphical environment needed.
The philosophy of ATAC is to be free, account-less, and offline for now and forever.
## How to install
[](https://repology.org/project/atac/versions)
### Install with cargo
> [!IMPORTANT]
> First, make sure your rust version is at least 1.79
Simply use:
```shell
cargo install atac --locked
```
### Install from Arch
You can use [pacman](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman) to install:
```shell
pacman -S atac
```
### Install with Homebrew
Simply use:
```bash
brew tap julien-cpsn/atac
brew install atac
```
### Install from Fedora copr
Simply use:
```bash
dnf copr enable joxcat/atac
dnf install atac
```
### Docker package
Pull the image from https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/juliencaposiena/atac/general
### Binary
The binaries from the latest release can be found [here](https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC/releases/latest)
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Remember to run it from a terminal.
> For example, you can add the binary into your PATH.
> You won't be able to run it like other graphical applications since it needs CLI arguments.
> [!TIP]
> Note for **macOS users**. After downloading the binary you may need to run the command
> `sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ~/bin/atac` (modify to reflect the path where `atac` is located).
### Compile by yourself
> [!IMPORTANT]
> First, make sure your rust version is at least 1.79
Simply clone the repository and use:
```bash
cargo run
cargo run -- -h
```
> [!TIP]
> Build the latest release
> ```bash
> cargo build --release
> ```
## Features
### Current
| Features | **ATAC** | Postman | Insomnia |
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
| **Manage collections & requests** | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| **HTTP Client** | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Methods | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - GET | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - POST | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - PUT | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - PATCH | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - DELETE | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - HEAD | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - OPTIONS | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Authentication | Partial | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Basic auth | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Bearer token | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - JWT, Digest, OAuth1-2, AWS | :x: :soon: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Headers | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Body | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Multipart form | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - URL Encoded form | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - File | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Plain text | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - JSON, XML, HTML, Javascript | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Full response | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Status code | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Cookies | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Headers | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Duration | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Scripting | :white_check_mark: | Partial | :x: |
| - Pre-request script | :white_check_mark: | :x: | :x: |
| - Post-request script | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :x: |
| Asynchronous requests | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Per-request settings | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Use proxy | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Allow redirects | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Store cookies | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Export to other languages | :x: :soon: | :white_check_mark: | :x: |
| **WebSocket Client** | :x: :soon: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| **GraphQL** | :x: :soon: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| **gRPC** | :x: :soon: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| **MQTT** | :x: :soon: | :white_check_mark: | :x: |
| **Free** | :white_check_mark: | Depends | Depends |
| **Lightweight, fast and efficient** | :white_check_mark: | :x: | :x: |
| **Data storage** | Your own committable, readable and versioned files (JSON or YAML) | Tied to your account | Tied to your account |
| **Offline** | :white_check_mark: | :x: | :x: |
| **Real-time collaboration** | :x: (not planned) | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| **Full command line usage** | :white_check_mark: | Partial | :w: |
| **Environment files and variables** | :white_check_mark: (committable, readable and versioned) | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| **View options** | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| **Global configuration file** | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - HTTP/HTTPS Proxy | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| - Disable CORS | :white_check_mark: | :x: | :x: |
| - Toggle syntax highlighting | :white_check_mark: | :x: | :x: |
| Postman v2.1.0 import | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| OpenAPI import | :x: :soon: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| **Themes** | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
### TODO v1.0.0
- **To add**
- Document the whole code
- Error notification in TUI
- Request body syntax highlighting
- Export a request to other code formats ([raw](https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/174), curl, PHP, JS, Rust, ...)
- OpenAPI & Insomnia import
- **To improve**
- Editing cookies
- Auto-completion on env file variables
- Handle "home" and "end" keys in the body editor (https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC/issues/93)
- Manage multipart Content-type header (auto-generated for now) https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/issues/2259
- Go from syntect to tree-siter (because syntect causes a little memory leak)
- **To fix**
- Query parameters bug
### TODO v2.0.0
- **To add**
- WebSocket requests
- Maybe GraphQL requests
- Maybe MQTT requests
- Maybe gRPC requests
### Ideas (will think about it later)
- Base URL property and authorization on collections
- VScode plugin to see and send requests
- Scoop installation
## Documentation
Here is the documentation: https://atac.julien-cpsn.com/
If you think something is missing, please contribute!
## Others
### Vim key-bindings
You can read more about it here: https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC/releases/tag/v0.14.0
### NeoVim integration
Thanks to [@NachoNievaG](https://github.com/NachoNievaG) you can have an ATAC floating window inside your nvim
https://github.com/NachoNievaG/atac.nvim
### Themes
You can read more about it here: https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC/releases/tag/v0.18.0
## Technical precisions
### Tested on
- Console Host
- Windows 11 (Pro)
- WSL2 Debian 12
- Windows 10 (Pro)
- Windows 8.1 (N)
- Ubuntu Desktop Terminal
- Ubuntu 23.04 64-bit
- Ubuntu 17.10
- Pop!_OS 20.04
- (Arch, Manjaro) KDE Konsole
- (Arch, NixOS) Kitty
- Linux Mint
- (OpenSuse) Alacritty
- (Chrome OS) Crostini
- Apple
- macOS Monterey 12.7.1 (Intel-Chip)
- macOS Sonama 14.4 (M1 Max, Apple Silicon-Chip)
(List from [here](https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm#tested-terminals))
### Dependencies
| Category / Library | Version | Reason |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Request** | | |
| [reqwest](https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest) & [reqwest cookie store](https://github.com/pfernie/reqwest_cookie_store) | 0.12.5 & 0.8.0 | Send requests |
| **TUI** | | |
| [ratatui](https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui) | 0.28.0 | Terminal UI framework |
| [crokey](https://github.com/Canop/crokey) | 1.1.0 | Used to parse, use key bindings files and some utilities |
| [tui-big-text](https://github.com/joshka/tui-big-text) | 0.6.0 | Display big texts. Only used for displaying ATAC in the homepage. |
| [tui-tree-widget](https://github.com/EdJoPaTo/tui-rs-tree-widget) | 0.22.0 | Display tree-like lists. Used for displaying the collections. |
| [tui-textarea](https://github.com/rhysd/tui-textarea) | 0.6.1 | Text area that handle a lot of features. Used for editing request body. |
| [throbber-widgets-tui](https://github.com/arkbig/throbber-widgets-tui) | 0.6.0 | Display loading UI elements. Used when request is pending. |
| [ratatui-image](https://github.com/benjajaja/ratatui-image) | 1.0.5 | Display response images. |
| [image](https://github.com/image-rs/image) | 0.25.2 | Decode images. |
| **Main functionalities** | | |
| [syntect](https://github.com/trishume/syntect) | 5.2.0 | Syntax highlighting |
| [serde](https://github.com/serde-rs/serde) ([serde_json](https://github.com/serde-rs/json), [serde-yaml](https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml)) | 1.0.213 (1.0.132, 0.9.34) | Serialize & Deserialize application data into files |
| [jsonxf](https://github.com/gamache/jsonxf) | 1.1.1 | Pretty print JSON |
| [toml](https://github.com/toml-rs/toml) | 0.8.19 | Serialize & Deserialize application config files |
| [boa_engine](https://github.com/boa-dev/boa) | 0.19.1 | Create Javascript runtimes. Used for pre and post request scripts |
| [My fork](https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/postman-collection-rs) of [postman_collection](https://github.com/mandrean/postman-collection-rs) | 0.2.3 | Deserialize Postman collection files |
| [curl-parser](https://github.com/tyrchen/curl-parser) | 0.3.1 | Parse cURL request files |
| [clap](https://github.com/clap-rs/clap) | 4.5.20 | Command Line Argument Parser |
| [directories](https://github.com/dirs-dev/directories-rs) | 5.0.1 | Use system files |
| [arboard](https://github.com/1Password/arboard) | 3.4.1 | Copy response body to clipboard |
| **Async** | | |
| [tokio](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio) | 1.41.0 | Handle asynchronous requests |
| [parking_lot](https://github.com/Amanieu/parking_lot) | 0.12.3 | Smaller, faster and more flexible implementation of RwLock and Mutex. Used everywhere. |
| **Utils** | | |
| [strum](https://github.com/Peternator7/strum) | 0.26.3 | Enum facilities |
| [lazy_static](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/lazy-static.rs) | 1.5.0 | Allows for more flexible constants. Mainly used for accessing CLI arguments everywhere |
| [rayon](https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon) | 1.10.0 | Allows the usage of multiple threads in for loops |
| [nestify](https://github.com/snowfoxsh/nestify) | 0.3.3 | Used to nest struct definitions |
| [walkdir](https://github.com/BurntSushi/walkdir) | 2.5.0 | Recursively retrieve files |
| [snailquote](https://github.com/euank/snailquote) | 0.3.1 | Unescape string |
| [indexmap](https://github.com/indexmap-rs/indexmap) | 2.6.0 | Ordered hashmap. Used in environments to preserve files' values order |
| [thiserror](https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror) | 1.0.65 | Create custom errors |
| [anyhow](https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow) | 1.0.91 | Result that can contain any error |
| [clap-verbosity-flag](https://github.com/clap-rs/clap-verbosity-flag) | 2.2.2 | Add verbosity flag to the CLI |
| [clap_complete](https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/tree/master/clap_complete) | 4.5.35 | Generate completion file |
| [clap_mangen](https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/tree/master/clap_mangen) | 0.2.24 | Generate man pages |
| [base64](https://github.com/marshallpierce/rust-base64) | 0.22.1 | Encode auth. |
| [regex](https://github.com/rust-lang/regex) | 1.11.1 | Regex. Using for parsing requests URL |
| [chrono](https://github.com/chronotope/chrono) | 0.4.38 | Time utils |
| [uuid](https://github.com/uuid-rs/uuid) | 1.11.0 | UUID generator |
| **Tracing/Log** | | |
| [tracing](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing) | 0.1.40 | Log events |
| [tracing-subscriber](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing/tree/master/tracing-subscriber) | 0.3.18 | Utilities for implementing and composing tracing subscribers |
| [tracing-log](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing/tree/master/tracing-log) | 0.2.0 | Log crate compatibility for tracing |
| [reqwest-tracing](https://github.com/TrueLayer/reqwest-middleware/tree/main/reqwest-tracing) | 0.5.3 | Opentracing middleware implementation for reqwest-middleware |
| [reqwest-middleware](https://github.com/TrueLayer/reqwest-middleware) | 0.3.3 | Wrapper around reqwest to allow for client middleware chains |
### Binary size
The binary file size goes from ~5 MB to ~12 MB depending on the platform. I try to keep it as small as possible, unfortunately for me, I bundle a Javascript runtime.
## Contributors
### Maintainers
- [@julien-cpsn](https://github.com/julien-cpsn)
### Packagers
- Cargo, Brew, Docker - [@julien-cpsn](https://github.com/julien-cpsn)
- Arch - [@orhun](https://github.com/orhun)
- Fedora copr - [@joxcat](https://github.com/joxcat)
## Star history
## License
The MIT license for this project can be seen [here](./LICENSE)