Nimbus v0.4.0-alpha: 10 new features to streamline your Laravel API workflow

[sunchayn]

A few months ago, I shared Nimbus. A Laravel-aware API client that lives inside your app and basically "auto-magically" understands your routes and validation rules so you don't have to set them up manually in Postman or other similar tools. It provides unique features that other traditional tools cannot provide, such as making requests as the currently logged-in user, decrypting cookies, etc.

v0.4.0-alpha is live today, and I think it moves the needle from "cool utility" to an actual serious workflow.

The stuff I’m actually excited about:

• Transaction Mode: Now, you can toggle Transaction Mode on, and Nimbus automatically rolls back the DB changes. Your data stays clean.
• Shareable Links: You can now generate a link that pre-loads the exact headers and payload for your teammates. And vice versa.
• Auto-selecting dynamic sections on click: You can now auto-select an entire dynamic route segment (like an ID) just by clicking it. It will remember the position, so clicking again after you've changed the value will re-select the whole segment for quick replacement.
• OpenAPI Schema Support: You can now feed it an OpenAPI spec. It keeps the Nimbus magic but uses your spec as the source of truth (It will reconcile the missing routes automatically, so you can have friction-free DX).
• Dump and Die responses: Nimbus now catches those dumps and renders them in a clean, paginated (for subsequent dumps) viewer inside the UI.

Additional New Features:

• Tabs Support.
• Request History and Rewind.
• Multi-application configuration Support.
• Spatie Data Support.
• UI Persistence.

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• Check it out here: https://github.com/sunchayn/nimbus
• Live demo: https://nimbus.sunchayn.io/demo

Would love your feedback!

[marius-ciclistu]

Hi. This is a dynamic FE for a laravel or lumen app?

[sunchayn]

It is a Laravel package. If you can install it in Lumen and the necessary components are available, it should work just fine. Although I doubt it will work, as Laravel's 11+ contracts are required for it.

Let me know if you happen to give it a try with Lumen 👌

[marius-ciclistu]

In lumen I will not waste my time. I did an auto crufd lib (that does not have built in UI) that could work out of the box with your lib in laravel. Two "magic" libs working together.