TL;DR: We’ve renamed NUTS-Client to Orbit. Same project, same mission—clearer name, sharper UI, and a few polish touches. No breaking changes to your data; a simple rename in your tooling and you're good to go.
- Clarity: “Orbit” better reflects the idea of observing, navigating, and interacting with your services and messages from a single, stable vantage point.
- Room to grow: We’re expanding beyond the original scope, and the new name fits the broader roadmap.
Orbit is a file-based GUI client for NATS that streamlines microservice development. Use it to browse subjects, publish/subscribe, inspect payloads, and iterate quickly—without leaving your flow.
To develop and test your NATS client, you will need a running NATS Server. We provide a Python-based service that listens to topics like time, TP_TEST1, and TP_TEST2.
The recommended way to run a NATS Broker is via Docker. You can do so with the following commands:
- Pull the NATS Docker image:
docker pull nats- Run the NATS Server with JetStream support:
docker run -p 4222:4222 nats -p 4222 --jetstreamThis will start the NATS server, listening on port 4222.
To run the NUTS-Client in development mode, use the following command:
npm run tauri devThis will start the client in a development environment.