Interactive Browser Playground

To lower Gherkio's learning curve to zero, the repository includes a self-contained, browser-based Interactive Playground and Documentation Hub located under docs/book/playground/index.html.

You can use the playground to experiment with test scenarios, visualize complex execution paths, and translate legacy commands in real-time.

🚀 How to Launch the Playground

Since the playground is a static, modern vanilla web application, you can run it instantly:

• Online Sandbox: Access the hosted web workspace directly on GitHub Pages Playground.
• Open via File Manager: Double-click docs/book/playground/index.html to launch it in your default web browser offline.
• Open via Terminal:

  # Linux
  xdg-open docs/book/playground/index.html
  
  # macOS
  open docs/book/playground/index.html
  

🛠️ Main Features

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|  [ Read Chapters ]      [ Visual DSL Stepper ]    [ cURL Convert ] |
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1. Visual DSL Stepper

• What it does: Type or edit Gherkio declarative YAML test steps on the left pane, and see a live graphical flowchart built on the right pane!
• Interactive Cards: Shows step-by-step HTTP methods (GET, POST, etc.), request URL routing, expected assertions, and saved context variables.
• Timeline Connectors: Displays step sequence borders with glowing accents.

2. cURL-to-YAML Step Translator

• What it does: Paste standard legacy cURL terminal logs (e.g., copied from Chrome Developer tools network inspector) and get back perfectly compiled Gherkio steps instantly.
• Features: Automatically extracts custom headers, handles multi-line request bodies, parses methods, and includes placeholder 200 expect blocks.
• Copy Target: Click "Copy" to drop the translated output straight into your .gherkio/tests/ files.