Quick start

This guide takes you from a fresh install to a saved request that reads its base URL from an environment. Before you start, install Nouto. On macOS, press Cmd wherever this guide says Ctrl.

Send your first request

1. Open Nouto. In VS Code, click the Nouto icon in the activity bar. On desktop, launch the app.
2. Click New Request at the top of the sidebar, or press Ctrl+N.
3. Leave the method set to GET.
4. Enter this URL: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1
5. Click Send, or press Ctrl+Enter.

The response panel shows the status 200 OK and a JSON body with userId, id, title, and body fields.

Save the request to a collection

1. In the Collections toolbar of the sidebar, click New Collection (the + icon).
2. Enter a name, for example My API, and click Create.
3. In your request, click Save next to Send.
4. Select My API in the list.

The request now appears under My API in the sidebar. When you change a saved request later, press Ctrl+S to save the changes.

Use an environment variable

1. Open the Environments panel. In VS Code, run Nouto: Environments from the Command Palette, or choose Manage Environments… in the environment picker. On desktop, click Environments in the left rail.
2. Click New environment, then change the environment name to Development.
3. Add a variable named baseUrl with the value https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com.
4. Click Set active next to Development.
5. In your request, change the URL to {{baseUrl}}/posts/1 and send it again.

Nouto replaces {{baseUrl}} with the value from the active environment before it sends the request, so you get the same response as before.

Next steps

• Collections covers folders, shared auth and headers, and the collection runner.
• Environments covers global variables, secret variables, and variable priority.
• Assertions shows how to check responses automatically.