A cross-platform desktop GUI for NATS messaging, built with Rust.
- Connection Management — Multiple server profiles with support for no-auth, token, user/password, NKey, credentials file, and TLS client certificates. Profiles are persisted across sessions.
- Publish / Subscribe — Publish messages with headers, send request-reply with configurable timeout, subscribe to subjects with wildcard support (
*,>), and browse messages in a real-time scrolling list. - Message Formatting — Auto-detect JSON / UTF-8 / binary payloads with pretty-printed JSON, hex dump, and Base64 display modes. Manual format override per message.
- JetStream Streams — List, create, update, and delete streams. Browse stream messages with pagination and subject filter. Purge by subject or purge all. Delete individual messages.
- JetStream Consumers — List, create, and delete consumers per stream. View consumer info including pending, ack-pending, and redelivery counts.
- Key-Value Store — List, create, and delete KV buckets. Browse keys with filter, view/edit entry values, and inspect full revision history.
- Object Store — 🚧 Under construction.
- Dockable Tabs — Multi-tab workspace powered by egui_dock. Undock, rearrange, and tile tabs freely.
- Dark / Light Theme — Follow system preference or toggle manually. Preference is persisted.
- Toast Notifications — Non-blocking feedback for operation outcomes.
Pre-built binaries are available on the Releases page.
Windows (Scoop)
scoop bucket add sworld https://github.com/mcthesw/scoop-bucket
scoop install easy-natsmacOS (Homebrew)
brew install mcthesw/tap/easy-nats
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Easy NATS.app"Linux
echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://mcthesw.github.io/sworld-apt stable main" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mcthesw.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install easy-natsFor .rpm and .AppImage, use the Releases page.
See roadmap.md for additional distribution channels (Flathub, AUR, etc.).
Requires Rust 2024 edition (rustc 1.85+).
cargo build --releaseThe binary is output to target/release/easy-nats (or easy-nats.exe on Windows).