I’ve been using Insomnia, but it seems they’ve enshittified. I started it up after an upgrade and found that Environments are now paywalled/behind an account. Is there a true open-source alternative to Postman/Insomnia anyone recommends?
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I have been using Bruno and I am quite happy with it (+ you can version and share your projects) https://www.usebruno.com/
Yep, it’s also able to import Postman collections.
Bruno looks almost exactly the same! Thank you!
I actually don’t find bruno that great compare to insomnia. it doesn’t have basic features like request history in the free tier.
There’s Yaak which is pretty good aside the fact that it doesn’t handle huge requests collections without lagging lile crazy.
After trying these two, I went back to insomnia.
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I have fully moved to https://hoppscotch.io/
I see there’s still a pro version though, that’s how Insomnia started and features have slowly been leeching to “pro only”, is that a worry with this one?
Curl.
You know what’s better than downloading Postman? Not downloading Postman.
Yeah till you need to make an actual request with a body 150 lines long, multiple headers, and also need to switch between multiple environments. Curl is fine, but it’s not workable realistically for devs doing API testing.
Especially when thé API is shit
Bookmarked that shit so fuckin’ hard.
They have a CLI as well as a Postman like desktop interface. One thing I prefer about their GUI over Postman is the way variables are defined/edited for multiple environments in a single view.
I could not find the license or source code for their desktop app. Is it even open source?
This looks really nice! Thank you!
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech plus one to this. there is a fork of insomnia and its fine to but httpie was just as good and has an easier to remember name.
There was postwowan, it is currently renamed to Hoppscotch https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
I’ve been using ATAC (Arguably a Terminal API Client) lately because I like everything to match my terminal theme.
Httpie
curl command in a shell script. Use
jq,hq,gron,grepor whatever to parse output. Pipe the response to a file to cache. Use a text editor and tmux for UI. Program workflows directly into the shell script. UNICS is an IDE.tl;dr Bruno
I’ve given up on all these tools, as I have found working with your usual test framework (depending on your language) much more convenient after all.
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