Sidebar Filtering, Environment Ordering, and Better Postman Imports

Table of Contents

• 🔍 Sidebar request filtering
• 🌲 New environment edit sidebar tree
• 📬 Import more postman auth types
• 📴 Opt-out of notifications
• Community contributions
• Completed feedback items
• Other fixes and improvements

This release brings the long-awaited ability to filter requests in the sidebar, plus a bunch of quality-of-life improvements that I know you’ll enjoy.

🔍 Sidebar request filtering

Let’s start with the big one. You can now quickly filter the sidebar using a simple-yet-powerful query language. This makes it much easier to navigate large workspaces, especially when you have deeply nested folder structures.

Filter requests in the sidebar using a simple query language

Filtering works recursively, so Yaak automatically shows matching descendants and ancestors, ensuring you never lose context while searching.

Closes Filter requests/folders

🌲 New environment edit sidebar tree

The environment edit dialog got an upgrade! The same sidebar tree component that was released in the last update is now being used for the environments dialog. This means you can:

• Multi-select environments to perform actions
• Drag-n-drop reorder environments
• Double-click to rename
• Navigate the sidebar with hotkeys

Environiment colors also got an upgrade! It is now possible to assign a theme color to an environment. This means selecting “red” will automatically adapt to match whatever theme is active. (Selecting a custom color (last option) will assign a fixed color value like it used to.)

You will also be prompted to select a color during environment creation.

📬 Import more postman auth types

The Postman importer now supports OAuth, JWT, and API key authentication. This should make it much easier to transition to Yaak if you’re looking for a faster or more secure API client.

📴 Opt-out of notifications

Yaak already does not include any tracking or analytics, but some of you also wanted the ability to opt out of checking for notifications. Now you can!

Community contributions

• Allow specifying time for timestamp.* functions by @hezhizhen in #283
• Fix text on plugin installation button, by @Madeleaan in #284
• Fix websocket url parameters not parsing variables by @rossquentin in #281
• Import Insomnia query parameters by @JeroenVdb in #290
• Fix dismissable banner action button title by @bkis in #273

Completed feedback items

• Allow opt-out of phoning home
• Error when entering encryption key
• Fix for floating sidebar rendering as empty
• JsonPath expression on text/plain
• Colorized HTTP methods within method dropdown
• Variable with empty value will cause error
• Show cursor in response panel
• XML formatter breaks content
• Skip disabled parameters during render
• Fix missing environment context menu items
• Fix for dragging items past a folder that was just expanded
• Moving folders selected with Shift results in folders unpacking
• Copy as curl including disabled auth
• Change websocket connect from localhost to 127.0.0.1
• Show full request paths in command palette

Other fixes and improvements

• Left/right arrow support for sidebar navigation
• Clicking a missing environment variable now creates one automatically
• Clicking a variable now opens directly to the value input
• Remove duplicated “Create Folder” in command palette actions
• Fix double-click to reset sidebar size
• Append unique name suffix when duplicating items
• The “Rename” context menu action now renames inline
• Fix for arrow keys selecting items in collapsed folders
• Shift-selecting items no longer include collapsed folder children
• Fix indent guide alignment
• Allow selecting theme colors for each environment
• Add hotkey for creating a new environment within the environment editor
• Add API-key auth to “copy as gRPCurl”
• Add AWS auth to “copy as Curl”
• Add the ability to click to copy text on “Type ___ to confirm delete” dialog
• Add the ability to disable notification check
• Reduce the default font size setting
• Change response history dropdown icon to a clock
• Add hotkey to show context menu in sidebar (Control+Enter on macOS, or Alt+Insert)
• Skip disabled headers and parameters during render
• Show error in app if enabling encryption fails