The lightweight, modern Postman alternative built for developer teams.
Postman has become bloated, slow, and increasingly forces mandatory cloud syncing. We built InstaRequest because we wanted a clean, native-feeling API tool that puts you in control of your data.
InstaRequest Community Edition offers everything you need to build, test, and document your APIs, wrapped in a beautiful UI powered by Vue 3 and Tailwind CSS, backed by a robust Laravel 13 engine.
- ⚡ Fast Request Builder: Intuitive interface for constructing complex API requests with custom headers, query parameters, path variables, and body payloads.
- 📁 Team Collections & Folders: Organize your requests cleanly into nested folders and share collections across your workspace.
- 🔒 Encrypted Environments: Securely store your environment variables and API keys. InstaRequest automatically encrypts and decrypts credentials on the fly using AES-256 encryption.
- 📜 Executable History: Automatically track request execution history.
- 📖 Documentation Portals: Generate and publish both internal team documentation and public-facing API portals.
- 📦 Import/Export: Easily migrate your data in and out.
InstaRequest is built on modern, developer-friendly technologies:
- Backend: Laravel Framework 13.x
- Frontend: Vue.js 3 + Inertia.js
- Styling: Tailwind CSS v4 + shadcn-vue
- Testing: Pest
Follow these steps to set up InstaRequest Community Edition locally:
Ensure you have the following installed on your system:
- PHP >= 8.3 (with extensions such as
sqlite3,mbstring,xml,curl) - Composer (PHP package manager)
- Node.js >= 20.x & npm
git clone https://github.com/janakkapadia/insta-request-ce.git
cd insta-request-ceInstaRequest includes a built-in setup script that automates package installation, environment setup, application key generation, database migrations (using a local SQLite database by default), and asset compilation:
composer run setupStart both the Laravel backend server and the Vite frontend compiler concurrently using:
npm run devOnce started, open http://127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser.
InstaRequest comes with built-in shortcuts to speed up your workflow:
| Action | macOS | Windows / Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Command Palette | Cmd + K |
Ctrl + K |
| New Request | Option + T |
Alt + T |
| Open Request in New Tab | Cmd + Click (or Middle Click) |
Ctrl + Click (or Middle Click) |
| Close Current Tab | Option + W |
Alt + W |
| Save Request | Option + S |
Alt + S |
Contributions are welcome! Please submit a pull request or open an issue to discuss proposed changes.
The InstaRequest Community Edition source code is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.
