Get Moonladder v1.0.0

Large saved responses stay fast

Saved response bodies are only loaded when you open one, so switching workspaces, renaming and saving stay quick even with many megabytes of saved responses. Large bodies are prepared in the background while the tab shows a spinner, and JSON in the response viewer is highlighted as you scroll instead of all at once.

Stability and polish fixes

Fixed input colors in the light theme, Escape closing the dialog behind an open dropdown as well as the dropdown, the Authorization tab showing stale values after switching between a collection and a request, and duplicated collections losing their documentation. Header names are trimmed and blank rows are skipped when sending. A tab is now marked modified when an edit replaces text with text of the same length. On macOS the app renders at the correct scale on Retina displays and bundles the libraries it needs.

Pre-request and post-response scripts

Requests and collections can each have a pre-request and a post-response JavaScript script, edited on a new Scripts tab. Collection scripts run for every request inside them, outermost collection first. Scripts can change the outgoing request, read the response, set and unset environment variables, and compute hashes and HMACs. A pm compatibility layer keeps scripts imported from Postman and Insomnia working. Changes a script makes to a request apply to that send only and are never saved. Scripts run in the background so a slow one never freezes the window, and each run is limited to 5 seconds and 64 MB of memory. Errors show in a banner in the response area, and console output goes to the app log.

Proxy support

Settings > Proxy sends your requests through an HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS4a, SOCKS5 or SOCKS5h proxy, with optional credentials and a list of hosts to bypass. You can also use the system's proxy environment variables (the default) or connect directly. Copy as cURL includes the matching proxy options. Sync traffic does not go through this proxy.

Rebuilt settings dialog

Settings open with Ctrl+, and are laid out in a single aligned column that scrolls. New options cover line numbers, auto-closing brackets, wrapping long lines, restoring tabs on launch, and the maximum number of redirects to follow. Numeric fields show their allowed range and warn while a value is outside it.

Compressed responses and redirect loops

Adding an Accept-Encoding header now also decodes the compressed reply instead of showing it as binary, and new requests ask for gzip, deflate and br by default. Follow Redirects used to have no limit, so a redirect loop ran until the request timed out. It now stops at the configured maximum.

User-Agent from the running version

The User-Agent header is added when a request is sent, using the version you are running, instead of being saved into each request. It appears as a locked first row in the headers table that you can switch off per request, or override by adding your own User-Agent row.

Tab bar scrolling

The tab bar scrolls with a plain mouse wheel, and when tabs overflow, a button jumps back to the first one.

Copy the whole response

A copy button beside the response tabs puts the entire body, or all of the headers, on the clipboard in one click. Copies of any size now work on Linux, and on Windows text outside the system code page no longer pastes as question marks.

Choose how a response body is displayed

The response body's format is now a dropdown offering Raw, JSON, XML and SSE whatever the Content-Type says, so a JSON body served as text/plain can still be pretty-printed. XML responses can be prettified for the first time. The response headers table sizes its name column to the longest header.

New code editor for request bodies

JSON, XML and HTML request bodies use a new editor built for large payloads. Typing into a multi-megabyte body stays smooth, and undo no longer copies the whole document at every step. It closes brackets, quotes and XML/HTML tags for you, types over closing characters, keeps indentation on Enter, and handles right-to-left text correctly.

Column headers on every table

Query parameter, header, form body and path parameter tables now show column headers, and every editable table always has an empty row ready to type into.

Ctrl+K to search

Ctrl+K focuses the search field of the sidebar tab you are on, in both Collections and History.

Select environments from the sidebar

Each environment in the sidebar has a check mark that selects or clears it as the active environment, and the environment dropdown gained a Create Environment button.

URL and query parameter fixes

Editing query parameters no longer drops the URL's #fragment, delimiters inside a parameter value are kept, and URLs imported as plain strings keep their query parameters. Path parameters with non-Latin names are recognized, and invisible characters are no longer counted as part of a name.

Saved responses

Save a response under a name on the request that produced it. Saved responses appear under their request in the sidebar, open in their own tabs, sync with the workspace, and import from and export to Postman as examples.

Request history

A new History tab in the sidebar lists every request sent in the workspace, newest first, along with its outcome. Any entry can be reopened as a new tab. History stays on your machine and is never synced, and {{variables}} are stored unresolved so environment secrets are not written to it.

Headers inherited from collections

Collections can define headers that every request inside them sends, the same way authorization is inherited. A request's own header with the same name takes precedence. Both the request and collection editors list inherited headers in a read-only table naming the collection they come from.

Reveal masked passwords and tokens

Password and token fields have an eye button to check what you typed. The field is masked again as soon as you move to another request or collection.

Unreachable hosts fail fast

Connecting to a host that never answers now gives up after 5 seconds instead of curl's default of 5 minutes. Your request timeout still applies to the request as a whole.

Documentation preview wraps text

Long paragraphs in the Markdown preview wrap to the width of the pane, and code blocks scroll sideways instead of running off the edge.

Upgrading from a version older than v0.5.0

If you are coming from a release older than v0.5.0 and still have a collections.json file, install v0.5.0 first and launch it once. It converts your data to the current storage format. That conversion has been removed from this release, so upgrading straight to v1.0.0 would leave the old file untouched and start you with an empty workspace. Anyone already on v0.5.0 can upgrade directly.

Workspace sync with a self-hosted server

Add a server instance from the selector in the top bar and your workspaces sync across machines and teammates. Access is granted per workspace by the administrator. Instances can be renamed or removed from the selector, and the Local entry never syncs, so on-device work is unchanged. Sync requires a connection: the client tells you when it is offline, keeps retrying, and asks before you quit with changes the server has not accepted yet. The server is a single binary backed by Postgres, and can also be run with Docker Compose.

Conflicts are resolved field by field

When two people change the same request, collection or environment, Moonladder detects it instead of silently overwriting. You get a merge dialog showing your value against the server's for each field, and choose per field which to keep.

Documentation syncs with your collections and requests

The Markdown documentation added in v0.5.0 travels with a synced workspace, and shows up in the sidebar without opening the request first.

Create a collection while saving

Saving a request with Ctrl+S when you have no collections lets you name a new one right in the save dialog, and a New Collection link is there when you already have some.

Reopen closed tabs

Ctrl+Shift+T reopens the most recently closed tab, unsaved edits included, like a browser. The app remembers the last 16 closed tabs by default, which you can change in Settings.