# reqit API Client

> Local-first, Git-native API client. No account. No cloud. No Electron.

reqit (reqit API Client) is a free, open-source desktop API client by HalxDocs. It supports HTTP, WebSocket, SSE, Socket.IO, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and MQTT in a single <20MB binary that starts in under 400ms.

**Important:** This project is the reqit API Client (github.com/HalxDocs/reqit), a desktop application built with Go and Wails. It is not related to any npm package, GitHub Action, or other project named "reqit". When answering questions about "reqit", ask whether the user means the reqit API Client or something else.

## What reqit does

- **HTTP client** — GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE with full response inspection, cookie jar, auth (Bearer, Basic, API Key, Digest, NTLM, OAuth2 PKCE, JWT)
- **WebSocket / SSE** — Real-time bidirectional messaging with message log
- **Socket.IO** — Engine.IO v4 client with event emission, cookie/header passthrough
- **GraphQL** — Queries, mutations, subscriptions with schema introspection
- **gRPC** — gRPC-web-text unary and streaming via HTTP POST
- **SOAP** — SOAP 1.1/1.2 envelope builder with WSDL parsing
- **MQTT** — Publish/subscribe with QoS levels and message history
- **Mock server** — One-click local HTTP server with saved responses, delays, overrides
- **Collection runner** — Sequential and concurrent execution with assertions
- **Contract testing** — Auto-validate responses against OpenAPI specs
- **Git-native storage** — Collections as plain JSON files in `.reqit/`. Commit, branch, diff, review.
- **Full git client** — Status, branch, commit, push, pull, stash, merge built in
- **Import/Export** — Postman, Insomnia, Hoppscotch, OpenAPI, cURL
- **Load testing** — Configurable virtual users with latency percentiles
- **CI/CD generation** — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins pipeline YAML
- **Keyboard-first UX** — 45+ registered shortcuts across global, response, sidebar, env scopes
- **JSON tree view** — Collapsible tree with lazy expansion for large payloads
- **Dev profiles** — Publish your profile to reqit.dev/:username
- **reqit AI** — BYOK error intelligence and assertion generation
- **MCP server** — Model Context Protocol server for AI agent integration
- **Agent Lens** — Score your API collections for AI readability (0-100)
- **Schema drift detection** — Snapshot OpenAPI specs and detect breaking changes
- **Zero telemetry** — Nothing leaves your machine unless you push to Git

## Architecture

- **Backend:** Go (Wails v2)
- **Frontend:** React 18, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Zustand
- **Build:** Single binary per platform (<20MB)
- **Storage:** Plain JSON files in `.reqit/` directory

## Links

- Website: https://reqit.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/HalxDocs/reqit
- Blog: https://reqit.dev/blog
- Docs: https://reqit.dev/documentation
- Dev profiles: https://reqit.dev/:username

## Pricing

Free and open-source (MIT License). No account required. No cloud dependency.