I have never had serious thoughts about religion till now.

I am a little confused if I should ever take it seriously - i like the serenity religious institutions provide - the artwork - the quiet comfort - but dislike the brainwashing and scams.

Would love to know how the community got started with this.

The default API tooling that comes to your mind is Postman.

Postman is cloud based - the other offline alternatives are on their way to enshittification.

Is there any solution to the problem or we should all default to curl.

Developers are so opinionated that its difficult to pin down one favourite tool !

Voiden is an offline-first, git-native API tool built on Markdown.

Instead of keeping API requests inside a cloud workspace, Voiden stores them as .void files that can live with your codebase, be versioned in Git, reviewed in PRs, and reused across a team.

We have now released the beta of @voiden/runner, a headless CLI for running those .void files outside the desktop app.

The runner executes the request, prints the result, and exits with a standard exit code that CI systems can use.

Important bits:

• runs on Node.js 18+
• works in terminal, CI/CD, Docker, and cron jobs
• supports REST, WebSocket, gRPC, and GraphQL
• supports JSON and CSV output
• supports request chaining through runtime variables
• works with core Voiden plugins like scripting, assertions, faker, - - advanced auth, and GraphQL

This is still beta, so APIs and flags may change.

The goal is to make .void files executable API workflows, not just files used inside the desktop app.

Github: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

Voiden CLI Runner : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden/tree/beta/packages/voiden-runner

Visit Voiden here : https://voiden.md/