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I made something! Introducing Nightingale, a fast and resource-efficient REST client

Daniel on December 05, 2019

REST clients today can use upwards to 1000MB of memory. This leads to a poor experience for people who don't have access to high powered machines, ...
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Austin Spaeth

Looks great from the screenshots! Is this a UWP app or Electron? It would be nice to try it on Mac.

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Daniel

Thanks! It was written with UWP. I would love to bring it to Mac, but I can't afford one 😢

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

UI looks great, what did you use?

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Daniel

Thanks! I used UWP xaml to build the UI. It was surprisingly easy to use but super powerful and fast. Also, I used a few open source controls from this and this this

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marcellothearcane

Can you download it without using windows store?

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Daniel

Not at the moment unfortunately!

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Stephen Chiang

Very cool!

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Daniel

thank you!