API Client: offline Monaco, data-loss and hang fixes, render perf, folder collections, Insomnia/Bruno import

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What does this change?

API Client work in four parts: fix the things that lose data or hang the tab, stop the per-keystroke re-render of the whole editor, land the git-friendly folder collections that were stranded on an unmerged branch, and add Insomnia + Bruno + Postman-environment import.

It started as a gap analysis against Bruno v4.1 and turned into the first two phases of the plan that came out of it.

Closes #

Why?

Two of these were quietly serious:

1. One saved example could wipe every open tab. Saved-example bodies were persisted into the api-client-tabs localStorage key; a 2 MB response blew the 5 MB quota and the catch deleted the whole key.
2. A top-level while (true) in a pre-request script hung the tab permanently. The 3s script budget was only checked inside pm.test(), and Cancel aborted the fetch, not the worker.

Plus: git-friendly folder-backed collections (de5aa0a3) had been sitting on api-tester-improvements, unmerged, since July — that feature is our answer to Bruno's core pitch.

Type of change

• Bug fix
• New tool
• Improvement to an existing tool
• Documentation
• Translation
• Chore (deps, config, tooling)

What's in it, commit by commit

c50bd6e7 — trust blockers

• Script runner: 5s hard timeout, worker terminated and respawned so the next send works.
• Tabs: graphqlSchema (refetchable) always stripped; on quota overflow, retry once with example bodies and uploaded file bytes stripped instead of dropping every tab.
• History: file bytes stripped before the POST too (not just localStorage); ORDER BY … LIMIT in SQL instead of loading every row and sorting in Rust; clear/delete now hard-delete (sync is gone, tombstones only accumulated).
• Rust proxy: pooled reqwest clients (was one per request — a TLS handshake every send), 50 MB response cap with an error envelope instead of unbounded buffering.
• Dropped the NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_API_KEY hard-fail from build-tauri.mjs — leftover from the removed auth, it blocked builds for a feature that no longer exists.

26282f74 — render performance

• RequestTabs and ResponsePanel memoized; the nine inline (v) => updateActiveTab({...}) props replaced with one memoized setter map; stable onMount/onChange/onSaveExample.
• handleSend and handleCopyCurl go through latest-value refs, so RequestPanel's memo holds and the window keydown listener stops being removed/re-added on every keystroke.
• Response body parsed once per body instead of three times per render (tryParseJson was called inline in three eagerly-evaluated JSX props).
• Monaco no longer remounts on Send: the request panel stays in one ResizablePanelGroup and the response panel joins it conditionally; body/pre-request/tests tabs are forceMount + hidden.
• History rows and TabBar's measure effect no longer invalidate on every tab-array identity change.
• sendProxyRequest() returns the Rust envelope directly instead of stringify → fake Response → .json() (two extra full passes over the body on the UI thread).
• Secret scan covers {params, headers, auth, body} instead of JSON.stringify(activeTab) — it was dragging the previous response and every saved example through a regex on each send.
• next/dynamic for GrpcPanel (protobufjs), WebSocketPanel, ImportDialog (js-yaml), runner, metrics, cookie jar; exporters imported on click.
• JSON tree/table views cap at 200 children / 500 rows (unvirtualised — a 10k-element array mounted ~100k DOM nodes on tab open).

711f3bd4 — merge api-tester-improvements
Folder-of-YAML collections (file-store.ts, collection-files.ts, move-to-vault.ts, Rust fs/dialog/persisted-scope plugins). Conflict resolution keeps main's auth removal — the branch's deep-link plugin, await_browser_auth command and cookie_store deps stay deleted — and main's reqwest 0.13 / base64 0.23. The "Open folder as collection" button moved into ToolSidebarActions, where main had relocated the sidebar header controls.

58aaf5bc — marketing copy
The Postman and Insomnia comparison pages were still conceding mock servers, collections and test automation to Postman — all of which ship. Rewritten to what's real, conceding only team/cloud workspaces, a CLI runner and Windows/Linux builds. Added /compare/mydevtools-vs-bruno and /compare/bruno-alternative.

63d78ed9 — spacing
Params/Headers column headers never lined up with their inputs (a flex header with no gap against rows that had one, plus a w-10 spacer against a 36px button); both now share one grid template. The toolbar's trailing divider rendered even though OfflineIndicator returns null while online, leaving a hairline and two gaps hanging off the row — the indicator now brings its own separator. Group dividers went from bg-border/50 + mx-1 (invisible on dark, and off the 8px rhythm) to bg-border.

abf5190e — Monaco stays on the CDN
Reverts the local Monaco bundling that c50bd6e7 had introduced, at the maintainer's request. See the reviewer note below.

5ce3275a, ab1b1d6b — imports

• The Postman environment importer already existed and had no caller. Wired into the dialog; added a matching per-environment export button.
• New Insomnia importer: v4 JSON resources and v5 YAML, nested groups, all body/auth types we support, {{ _.VAR }} → {{VAR}}, scripts, environments. Round-trips our own Insomnia v4 exporter.
• New Bruno importer: the legacy .bru language and v4 OpenCollection YAML — folder trees with folder.bru defaults, seq ordering, ~key disabled rows, json/text/xml/form/multipart (@file(...))/graphql bodies, basic/bearer/apikey/oauth2, scripts, environments/*.
• Imports that carry environments now create them instead of dropping them.

How did you verify it?

• cd apps/desktop-ui && pnpm test → 135 suites, 1267 passed, 2 skipped. 31 of those tests are new (tab slimming, Postman env round-trip, 13 Insomnia, 9 Bruno, 2 detection).
• ./node_modules/.bin/tsc --noEmit -p . in both apps/desktop-ui and apps/web → clean.
• cargo check and cargo test in apps/desktop/src-tauri → 54 passed. One existing test (history_limit_and_clear) started failing on the new SQL ordering because three rows land in the same millisecond; fixed with a rowid DESC tiebreak and the test now also asserts that clear actually empties.
• Monaco checked in a real browser: loaded /app/format-converter and read the page's own performance.getEntriesByType('resource') — the editor renders and pulls cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/monaco-editor@0.55.1/min/vs/*, i.e. the CDN behaviour this repo already had.
• Drove the API Client in the running app: switched between Params/Body/Auth/Pre-request/Tests (editors keep state, inactive tabs hidden), typed a JSON body, sent with ⌘↵, confirmed the split layout appears and the body survives the send.

Screenshots

Not attached — the visible UI is unchanged apart from the sidebar's "Open folder as collection" button and an export icon in the environment manager. The perf work is deliberately invisible.

Checklist

• pnpm lint passes — see note below
• Tests pass (cd apps/desktop-ui && pnpm test), and logic changes have a test
• User-visible strings go through useTranslations — the one new string (ApiClient.environmentManager.exportPostman) is in all 27 locales
• New/changed keys added to messages/en.json (inserted into all 27 locales; JSON re-validated)
• Async mutations that can fail are wrapped in try/catch with toast.error(message)
• No new mandatory network call, sign-in, sync or backend. Note the app still fetches Monaco from jsdelivr on first editor render — pre-existing behaviour, deliberately left as is (see below)
• No secrets, tokens or personal data in the diff

On lint: the repo has ~360 pre-existing ESLint errors and lint is deliberately out of CI. I compared the touched files before and after: same three pre-existing errors (two react-hooks/purity on Date.now() in render, one set-state-in-effect in tabs-context), no new ones. I did fix the two I introduced mid-work (ref writes during render → effects) rather than leave them.

Anything reviewers should know?

• Worth a close look: the ResizablePanelGroup change in api-client.tsx. Panels now get explicit id/order because the group's membership is conditional; if the response panel's saved size behaves oddly on your machine, that's where it is.
• Monaco still loads from jsdelivr, by decision. I had bundled it locally (public/monaco/vs + loader.config) so editors worked with no network; the maintainer asked for the CDN back, so abf5190e reverts that. Consequence to be aware of: offline, every Monaco-backed editor — API client body/scripts/response plus ~15 other tools — stays on "Loading editor...", which sits awkwardly next to the "fully offline" claim in the README and on the site. monaco-editor stays at 0.55.1 as a types-only dep because that is the exact version the loader requests from the CDN.
• Bruno import is paste-a-file only for now. Picking a whole Bruno directory needs readCollectionFiles in lib/desktop/collection-files.ts to read .bru/.yml/.json — it is .yaml-only today. importBrunoFolder already takes the flat {path, text}[] that pass would produce.
• git log is not linear — 711f3bd4 merges a five-week-old branch. Review with git diff main...HEAD rather than commit-by-commit if the merge noise gets in the way.
• The gap analysis this came from also flagged features that are fully built and wired to nothing: the SSE relay in proxy.rs, the GraphQL subscriptions client, the OpenAPI spec watcher, cookie-jar export, and the backend's drag-and-drop move op. Not in this PR — worth their own.
• I did not touch the deliberately-deferred items: NTLM/SPNEGO stay 501 on desktop, no CLI runner, no git UI.

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