Plugin Directory, GraphQL Doc Explorer, and Run Button

How’s that saying go? “All good features come in threes?” Never mind… 😅

Here are the three big things included in this release.

• Official Plugin Directory
• GraphQL Documentation Explorer
• Embeddable Run-in-Yaak button

Plus a pile of fixes based on your feedback. Let’s dig in.

🧩 Official Plugin Directory

It was previously possible to create custom plugins for yourself, but there was no easy way to discover or share them. Now you can browse and install plugins directly from Yaak’s settings dialog!

Plugins also show up on the Plugins Directory on this website. It’s still early, so if you have an idea and want to submit your own, visit the Quick Start Guide. To learn how.

The following plugin types are currently supported:

• Template functions
• Custom themes
• Authentication
• Custom data importer
• Request actions like “Copy as Curl”

Most plugins are only a couple dozen lines of TypeScript, and can be published in less than 5 minutes using the Yaak CLI.

📖 GraphQL Documentation Explorer

You can now browse your GraphQL schema directly inside Yaak!

The GraphQL Docs Explorer makes it easy to navigate types, fields, queries, mutations, and arguments all without leaving the request tab.

It’s perfect for exploring unfamiliar APIs or refreshing your memory without having to use an external tool like GraphiQL.

Shout out to Mr0Bread for the initial implementation in #208

Closes GraphQL Documentation explorer

▶️ Embeddable Run Button

You can now embed a “run button” on any web page (like your API docs) that will prompt the user to import it into Yaak when clicked.

Create your own button by visiting yaak.app/button/new.

Creating a button requires the following:

• A friendly name (eg. Stripe API)
• A link to an importable spec (Yaak, Postman, OpenAPI, etc.)

Closes Run in Yaak Button

🔐 API Key Authentication

There’s a new “API Key” authentication type to easily add an API key as a custom header or query parameter.

Closes API Key Authentication

Fixes and Improvements

• Missing description when importing Postman
• Import from Postman reversed
• Chinese input text duplicated (#234 by mooonfly)
• Inherit headers and auth when calling request actions
• Hide plugin errors for JSONPath/XPath input
• Add cancel request button in response pane
• Import from curl multiple-equals
• Reset variable dialog on environment change
• Pop-out editor for JWT payload
• Prevent response from hanging on error
• Copy as gRPCurl
• Set gRPC include path(s)
• Cannot open sync directory
• YAML error missing field type
• Window padding wrong on fullscreen macOS
• Zoom hotkeys don’t use physical key location
• Folder may hide children during move operation
• No cookies for websocket requests (#245 by @carterjc)
• “Authentication” misspelled in request Auth tooltip
• Scope OAuth 2.0 tokens to clientId/etc
• Add timestamp.* template functions (#244 by @subframe7536)
• Use monospace font in autocomplete menu (#237 by @subframe7536)
• Improve inherited headers preview (#238 by @subframe7536)
• Remove --url-query (too new) from curl generate (#239 by @subframe7536)
• Add hover effect to split-pane resizing (#240 by @subframe7536)
• Add request.param template function (#242 by @subframe7536)
• Fix padding on horizontal tabs view (#243 by @subframe7536)
• Add more mimetypes for autocomplete (#235 by @berezovskyi)
• Add regex.match and regex.replace template functions
• Fix pair editor focus when creating a new entry by clicking value
• Improved workspace settings layout
• Add header prefix option to bearer auth
• Add type-text-to-confirm workspace delete
• Ability to create theme plugins
• Better websocket closing logic and URL parsing
• Hide large request bodies by default to prevent a UI freeze
• Add json.minify() template function
• Prevent command palette from shifting when few results
• Allow moving sidebar items to the end
• Print table/column/value when the DB row is not found
• Fix OAuth PKCE flow not sending code challenge