Version 17 - beta release

 Dear ARC users,

Recently we released version 17 (beta) of the Advanced REST Client. In it few changes were requested for a very long time, so we are delighted that they will soon be available in the stable channel.

See the list of changes below.

Advanced REST Client version 15 is released with client certificates

Version 15 of Advanced REST Client has been released. You can install it from ARC releases page.

This release comes with a support for client certificates. Read more to learn how to use client certificates in Advanced REST Client.

Client certificates manager in Advanced REST Client

ARC components in Mulesoft's API Console

I am proud to announce that web components that are used to build ARC are now also used to build Mulesoft's API Console.

MuleSoft's API Console is a full-fledged API documentation tool that generates mobile-friendly web documentation based on RAML (Restful API Modeling Language) documents. It is an open source, community driven application that can be easily adjusted to any environment.

Background

While working on atomizing Advanced REST Client to a set of web components internally in the company we've realized that both products can share the same code base. So over a year ago I've started working on new version of the API console. The task was to create a best in class usability for API documentation tool. That includes mobile friendliness, ergonomic design, ease of reading documentation and learning the API structure. From a developer standpoint API console should be easy to use as a standalone application ready to run on a web server but also as a embeddable HTML element that can be added to existing products (like existing web pages with API documentation).

The result

API console is a web application based on web components standard. Therefore it can be used in any web environment and can work with any web framework (though some frameworks - like React - may require additional customizations). We've created a set of tools to make it even easier to build the API console from a RAML file. Our CLI tool can be used to generate production ready standalone website with API documentation or to generate development preview of the documentation while working on RAML. There also is the api-console-builder npm module that can be used in node environment to build the same API console.

Try new API console and design your APIs with RAML. I'll be happy to hear a feedback from you.

New Advanced REST Client native application - install today

New version of Advanced REST client is ready! It is installable native application available in all major platforms:

- Windows (32 and 64 bit)

- MacOS

- Linux (deb and rpm)

You can install it from install.advancedrestclient.com. Do it today and move your data from legacy Chrome application to new native application.

Changelog v11

- Tabs in the request panel are finally there. No need to open many windows of the application (though you still can)

- Automatic updates that can be turned off if necessary 

- Cookie manager - now you can create / edit / delete cookies in the application. Cookies are applied to matching request domain and path

- Web session setup - open URL in app's internal browser to create a web session. Cookies from this session are automatically applied to the request

Web Components @ scale - my topic at the DevFest 2016 conference in Warsaw, Poland

Hi developers.

I'm proud to be a speaker at the DevFest 2016 conference in Warsaw, Poland.
The conference is this Saturday in Praha Cinema. My topic will be about building web applications that scales using web components. I’m going to talk about development workflow with web components, using platform over frameworks and how Polymer 2.0 is shifting from being framework to being support library for web components removing all framework alike functions.

The Advanced REST Client application is now a Polymer - or rather web component - application. For last year I managed to rebuild the app from GWT framework to web components. I have also an experience in other apps build with Polymer. But the case of ARC showed me that wrong architectural approach - even with web components - may end up with building another monolith that just use another framework. But web components are made to be a real building blocks of modular application.

If you are in Poland at the time I strongly encourage you to be at the conference. Many great speakers are managed to be there and many great talks are being prepared. If you will, just say hi to me :)

See you at DevFest!