---
title: "Thunder Client — Rest API client for VS Code, lightweight Postman alternative"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/thunder-client-rest-api-client-for-vs-code-lightweight-postman-alternative-nf3rik-ep
source_url: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/thunder-client
type: article
source: "Product Hunt"
author: "Ranga Vadhineni"
published: 2021-03-31T09:54:51.812Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:38:21.257Z
tags: ["devtools", "general-programming", "testing"]
upvotes: 27
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# Thunder Client — Rest API client for VS Code, lightweight Postman alternative

**[Product Hunt](https://daily.dev/sources/ph)** · [@rangv](https://daily.dev/rangv) · 27 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Thunder Client is Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code, with simple and clean design. The extension makesapi testing very easy with Scriptless GUI based testing. Embed Collect is a tool that collects all the data collected by the Thunder Client. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mathad** · 1 upvotes

> Nice post

**@squintdev** · 1 upvotes

> Super useful! Postman is great, but it can be overkill if I just need to test an endpoint really quickly.

**@rangv** · 0 upvotes

> Hi All,
>
>
> I am Creator of Thunder Client - Http Client extension for VS Code
>
>
> Key Features
> - Lightweight API Client
> - Simple & Clean UI
> - Collection & Environment Variables
> - Scriptless Testing
>
> let me know know if you have any questions
>
> for feature requests post on github
> https://github.com/rangav/thunder-client-support

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