Insomnia is a bit more like classic postman, though it's kinda heading the same way too.
Ended up falling back to cURL and shell history for REST stuffs a lot of the time.
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Insomnia is a bit more like classic postman, though it's kinda heading the same way too.
Ended up falling back to cURL and shell history for REST stuffs a lot of the time.
I think I remember insomnia being a pretty popular alternative when I first picked up Postman. Never gave it a chance but maybe now it's the time to switch.
At least it's open-source, so it's hard for them to destroy the product completely.
Yeah works amazingly well on Linux too
Enshittification.
I just switched to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client a few years ago. Way better, simpler, easily version controlled and reviewed, completely FOSS. Only downside is it's just for VSCode, if that's not your thing
We made the decision yesterday to dump Postman in favor of Thunder Client. As soon as I saw the push to create an account and use cloud workspaces, I knew the time would come.
(edit: correct styling of Thunder Client)
Thunderclient
Looks great, thanks for the rec.
I’ve never heard of Thunder Client but it looks really interesting
check out this topic here: https://programming.dev/post/435823 where I asked question about postman alternatives not so long ago. Tons of suggestions!
Perfect! There's definitely a lot of good suggestions there.
I'm just so disappointed to see Postman trying to become a more "enterprise" solution.
well, cause that’s where the most money comes from I guess
That's stupid money for an api testing tool lmao
Valued at 5.6 billion dollars. Investors are fucking idiots.
And that's putting it lightly
A tale as old as tech
+1 for this question. Postman was a thing of simple beauty before they tried chasing the VC money
I'm very very surprised nobody has recommended hoppscotch.io yet
Hmm cloud-based solutions for this scare me. But ok if open source.
I could be wrong but I don't think hoppscotch.io is cloud based. CMIIW
This kind of thing led me to disabling feature updates on my older Postman installs, and switching to Insomnia as a replacement on systems that don't have Postman
It has a similar look to the classic postman. I'm just hoping they don't go the same way postman did if they end up with big investors and ridiculous valuations.
If you use vscode, you might look at the thunderclient extension.
Oh this looks promising! Thanks!
Insomnia has that classic postman feel, but personally I switched to hurl ( https://hurl.dev/ ) I really like how simple it is once it's setup.
time to switch to insomnia my friend!
You probably want this now https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client
Thanks for the suggestion I'll try it out!
I've always used and will continue to always use curl.
Ive been using something called Insomnia lately. It's a bit less fully-featured when it comes to things like env vars, but I love that I can copy any call from my browser's network tab as a curl command and just paste it right into insomnia
I’ve been using RapidAPI on my Mac. It looks quite nice, but I’ve found some parts to be a little buggy.
I tried postman and came to the same conclusion as you. I couldn't figure it out at all. I downloaded an app for android called "ApI Tester". I might try out ThunderClient, which others have suggested, if it works on Linux.