Cielago 0 ▲ Steve Simkins 2 hours ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments It was a regular Thursday at work. I tried to open Postman for the 3rd time in a row, and yet again everything froze and nothing would load. "Fine then." That's how Cielago was born. There are plenty of other tools out there for testing or interacting with APIs, however I had a few specific requirements. I needed something that could both import an OpenAPI spec and allow me to have multiple configurations, as well as OAuth support for authentication. That combo of the two proved to be pretty challenging to find, especially in TUI apps. With the requirements and vision in mind, I set up a detailed plan for LLMs to get started while I continued working. After building some TUIs in both Rust and Go recently, I decided to use Rust and Ratatui for this app. Both of the languages do well with LLM assisted coding, but I've found the Ratatui to be a superior framework for building terminal apps. To my surprise the MVP that came out of the LLM worked pretty well. It took some more tuning and… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.