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Show HN: Commandcar – a CLI tool that can easily communicate with any API

• anonfunction 11y ago
  Did you create another API doc design? Are there plans to support the other specs like Swagger or RAML?
  • pmontra 11y ago
    Good idea. It would be useful to integrate it with the routing definitions of popular frameworks. Example: generate the definition file from Rails' routes.rb
• czardoz 11y ago
  There's also Newman: https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman It can take collections from Postman and run them. Commandcar seems to be more driven towards interactivity though, which is kinda cool. Disclaimer: I work on Newman as a part of my day job.
• dzhiurgis 11y ago
  Adding Salesforce probably could be beneficial
• ghubbard 11y ago
  No tests?
• inlineint 11y ago
  Why the example in README uses sudo by default? It seems more suitable to install APIs into local user directory by default and don't force the users to run your command as root.
  • shaharsol 11y ago
    You need to install it globally and it needs to be able to copy files into /usr. I reckoned this is how its down with global npm installations. Do you have any other solution?
    • jgillich 11y ago
      Using sudo with npm is not required, you can configure it to store things in your user dir: echo "prefix=$HOME/.npm-packages" >> ~/.npmrc
    • fit2rule 11y ago
      >copy files into /usr Why that?
• pmontra 11y ago
  I'll try to use it as I'm working on projects with many API calls but for sure I'll alias it to something shorter, maybe "api".
• kps 11y ago
  “Any API” seems to mean “any web service API” or something like that.
  • shaharsol 11y ago
    That would exceed the hn title limit ;-)