Chang-Hung Liang eliangcs

How I Created HTTP Prompt and Got 5000+ Stars on GitHub

Two months ago, I published an open source project, which went viral by gaining 1200+ stars in the first 24 hours. As of this writing, it has attracted 5000+ stars. The project is called HTTP Prompt:

https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt

Here I want to share its development story.

It all began with Vertica. Not long ago, I used Vertica every day for my work. Vertica is a powerful database, but the official client (vsql) is not powerful at all. The GUI alternative, DbVisualizer, is bad as well.

	const assert = require('assert');

	const _ = require('lodash');

	const ensureJSONEncodable = (obj, path = null, visited = null) => {
	if (obj === null \|\| _.isBoolean(obj) \|\| _.isNumber(obj) \|\| _.isString(obj)) {
	return;
	}

	path = path \|\| [];

	import os
	from io import BytesIO

	import boto3

	BUCKET = 'bucket-name'


	def gen_int():
	a = 0

	httplogger() {
	while true; do
	echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\nok" \| nc -vl 8989
	test $? -gt 128 && break
	echo
	echo '----------------------------------------'
	done
	echo
	}

	#!/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/.pyenv/versions/3.6.2/envs/alfred/bin/python

	import functools
	import json
	import os
	from datetime import datetime
	from threading import Thread


	import requests

	def guess_encoding(s):
	"""Guess the character encoding from a byte string."""
	# Check BOM
	# 0xFF, 0xFE -> UTF-16 LE
	# 0xFE, 0xFF -> UTF-16 BE
	# 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF -> UTF-8
	bom = s[0:2]
	if bom == '\xff\xfe':
	return 'utf-16'
	elif bom == '\xfe\xff':

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<style>

	.svg {
	border: 1px solid #000;
	}

	.result {
	color: #05c;

	"""
	A minimal web server that runs shell commands, powered by Tornado and its
	Subprocess module. It does non-blocking IO and streams the response.

	To start the server:

	$ python tornado_subprocess.py

	To send a shell command using httpie:

	# Clear local merged branches
	function clearbranches(){
	cur_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
	if [[ "$cur_branch" == "master" ]]; then
	git branch --merged \| grep -v "\*" \| xargs -n 1 git branch -d
	else
	echo "Not on master branch!"
	fi
	}

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<style>

	.background {
	fill: #e7e7e7;
	}

	.axis path,
	.axis line {